Eccentrically experimental but movingly melodic, FIRES WERE SHOT deliver a straight bullseye on the ever so intriguing and immersive soundscape that is “Sleeping Land”. The moving and transportive ambient and drone arrangement continues for a looming six minutes, an unnerving and ominous exploration into the depths of your own consciousness and core. It’s got a visceral and cutting energy, a piercing like quality that allows you to delve further and further inwards till you’re wholly and entirely immersed within the gaze of your internal flow of consciousness.
This isn’t a listen that’s background noise although you might feel it at first, it’s far more moving and transformative in its texture. There’s a darkness to it, a cloudy embrace that blankets you and forces itself onto you. You’re almost compelled and fixated within, asking yourself for more and reaching out for what’s there to be found.