Somehow fusing a mood of intimacy with an aggression of unbridled power, Fermata Caesura’s unique confluence of folk and rock sits uniquely alone. The over the top and awe inspiring arrangement on ‘Empty Promises’ feels so immense in scale, so rough and smooth at the same time, so intimate yet so distant. It’s simultaneously unsettling yet blissfully serene. The song details the slow decay and disintegration of a relationship that’s rotting before your eyes, slowly collapsing and unravelling. An incredibly morose and melancholic mood prevails over the tone, the kind of sombre emotional core that’s anchored and steered by the strings and really amplified by a glorious vocal performance.
Inescapably riveting and majestically magnetic, it’s a truly unique and shining piece of folk music that leaves you in awe by the time it subsides.