Foster’s last musical offering before the end of the year is a powerful and immersive piece that blends progressive and hard-rock urgency with gothic-folk moments and vast post-rock soundscapes. Disturbing, saturated guitar textures collide with soft, intimate vocal lines, creating a tension that feels both cathartic and deeply human.
He mentions: “City on Fire is a song that has been vibrating within me for quite some time already. It came and went in my life when I least expected it, but I guess it became much more significant for me as I’ve been horrified by the new measure of atrocities human nature is inflicting on the world. I understood that beyond the fire raging within us and the subsequent cynicism we now have to deal with lies the notion of trying to find some inner peace through it all, to transcend the fear we have to lose ourselves in our own flaming disillusions.”
