We Slowly Lift Ourselves From Dust

VINYL FORMAT. "Both extremes have had their merrits for Fear Falls Burning, but the two tracks presented here are by no means neither fish nor fowl. Side A takes off with a heavy, demasculated doom metal riff, dragging itself from chord to chord almost like a parody. The tone is serious, yet sober, the sound is dry, raw and unpolished. Through a series of repetitions, the motive develops a bizarre catchyness, before translucent harmonies come in like the sun eclipses a raincloud, just staying underneath the surface, only to turn into the centre of attention as the riff slowly fades from the scene towards the very end. On the flipside, the meditative aftermath of the opening is explored in more depth, as a wall of four drone tones swells and decongests through various filter modulations.

Even though there is a clear relationship between the two pieces, they are not like snakes biting each other's tails nor Yin and Yang and that is what makes We Slowly Lift Ourselves From Dust stand out from some of the other Fear Falls Burning releases from the last months, which either saw the flipside of the record pick up at a different point within the same track or take an atmospherically opposed stance. Here, everything remains ambivalent, undefined, unresolved and by all means intangible in a seductive kind of way. You have a feeling you know what all of this means, but you need further evidence from an as yet uncertain future. Which may be a perfect way indeed to finish this episode and turn towards something new." – Tobias Fischer (tokafi.com)