I HEAR SIRENS is a Cinematic Post Rock band hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Besides this, I wasn't able to gather any more information about the band. So, we will have to let the music do the talking for us. The album has ten songs, and "Orsus" is first. The entrance is a bit dark, mysterious, and even tense, but when the piano notes come in, I am immediately calmed. It's quite beautiful. "In Tenebris" is next, and it also enters with dark tones and some light crackles of thunder. Slowly, the sonority increases, as additional layers of guitars are added. The tension is quite thick, before the sound drops again. "Ad Caelum" comes right at you like an arrow shot at its target, with a full and rich guitar sound that is somewhat melancholy. From there, the sound waxes and wanes like the tides rising and falling.

"Broken Crowns" has a slower pace, and each note seems to mellow you out even more. When you consider the title of the song, it's quite a sad thing, and the music reflects that well. "Spectral Passenger" has charming clean guitar notes, and that feeling of endless days of grey skies and rain is still omnipresent. If nothing else, they do give you time to ponder things. Again, there is that slow building of layers that is associated with the genre, and each one brings another wave of emotion to you as a listener. "Burden of Memory" begin with another slow moving pace of guitars. I won't call them sad necessarily, but they are tinged with things like melancholy, and perhaps loneliness and even regret. All of those feelings bust through with the advent of screeching guitar leads.

"Sleepwalk Mosaic" only uses piano and guitar notes sparingly, but reach one brings a rush of emotions with them. "Rise + Fall" sports that duality of the genre…as both are equal parts of the human experience. The sonority undulates, swelling at times, and retreating at others. The title track is the final song, and it lifts you out of the grey haze of the album to greener pastures. The worry is gone, and you are left with a clear head for the first time in a while. One of the best features of the album is how the band plunges you head first into deep, murky waters, to let you explore the darker side of things, only to bring you back by the end. It's quite an emotional rollercoaster of sound, as only Post Rock instrumentals can levy.