Russian trio i am waiting for you last summer is back with a new album out this fall, a collection of cinematic-inspired post-rock instrumentals called Without/Within. The band has ample experience setting moods, considering that Sasha Sokolov has worked on major soundtracks such as Jurassic World and Captain America: Winter Soldier, and live shows also emphasize a visual element.
While film is influential, the songs of Without/Within take a bigger element. The record is described as “s a meditation on the shifting boundaries between self, universe, and the unknown.” In essence, exploring the unknown with shifting layers of sonic depth.
The album is out on Oct. 31 and the first single is “Nulla,” which Scene Point Blank is excited to debut today.
Sokolov gives us a little more detail:
“Nulla” was inspired by the idea that we -- as living matter -- are part of an evolving process that, at some point, begins to question itself. There’s something powerful in the image of consciousness emerging from the same material that forms stars and planets -- and then turning inward to ask: What am I? What is this?
Also referred to as IWFYLS, the band formed in 2011 at a This Will Destroy You concert and in the 14 years since, has performed at SXSW, dunk!festival, and shared the stage with the likes of This Will Destroy You, 65daysofstatic, and Rosetta.
“Nulla” will be available on streaming platforms on July 30.
Hear it first here:
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Order/pre-save the album. It releases on vinyl, cd, and digitally.
Without/Within tracklisting:
1. Message
2. Contact
3. Unknown
4. Redshift
5. Threshold
6. Nulla
7. Entangled
8. Tides
9. Gravity
10. Quiet Sun
Lineup on-stage:
Sasha Sokolov — guitar, vocal, electronics, percussion
Evgeniy Popov — guitar, bass, modular synth, percussion
Lev Nikitin — electronics
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Band photo by Maria Shatalova, Vanya Agon, and Oktavian Adhiek Putra. Left to right: Sasha Sokolov (Maria Shatalova, Liza Popova), Evgeniy Popov (Maria Shatalova, Oktavian Adhiek Putra), Lev Nikitin (Maria Shatalova)
