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What Came Before

by Fionnlagh

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    An immersive, dystopian exploration of sublime vastness, What Came Before is unlike anything you've heard before.

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A thoroughly immersive, dystopian, even nightmarish exploration, Fionnlagh’s ‘What Came Before’ drops the listener into an unfolding flashback of another reality. Soaring synths over dark, brooding sub tones crescendo in a style that already seems a unique hallmark of the artist, with an immediacy that is as transfixing as it is unsettling. A uniquely enthralling experience.

Born of previous shared experience as a guiding light in dark times, What Came Before aims to go further than nostalgia, placing emphasis on the acknowledgement of history’s true nature. Accepting that for one to reminisce and truly reflect on the past, it will serve only to accentuate the present.

Akin to dystopian film scores such as Blade Runner, Arrival and Dune, What Came Before is visually represented by bleak, remote landscapes. Videos using vast, rugged rural footage have been produced by James Tyson (Tundra Tides), using live modular video manipulation. 2022 saw the sequel album 'What Came After', with remixes from Warmth, Logic Moon, Hilyard, Seabucktohorn and Anwalter.

Not for the faint of heart. Engage at your own risk.


"These ebbing and pulsing melodies and windswept soundscapes are presented atop low-frequency patterns, resembling the scores of Jóhann Jóhannsson." - Avant Music News

"...part soundtrack to our tremendous longing, part echo of the distant and distorted past." - Headphone Commute

"The slightest touches of brooding harmonies that begin to form but quickly become subsumed by the droning noise of each track bring a new level of macabre to the already ghostly landscape produced here." - On the Fringes of Sound

"I can only say that I really hope Fionnlagh releases more dark ambient in future, because this is jaw-droppingly good – eerie, dark, and brooding, with a real sense of menace running right through it." - This Is Darkness

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3 bonus tracks available exclusively on Bandcamp.

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Composed and produced by Fionnlagh
Mastering by Ian Hawgood
Photography by Scott F Jones & Mark Findlay
Videos by James Tyson
www.instagram.com/tundra_tides/
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released November 23, 2021

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