We Fall is reminiscent of the post-rock experimentalism of Brian Eno’s Another Green World and recalls the delicate, languid minimalism of Harold Budd. The album’s classical inflections sharpened by a dialog with electronic elements evoke Alva Noto+Ryuichi Sakamoto. Indeed this is an album of juxtapositions: acoustic abuts electronic; minimalist at moments, richly layered in others; ambient while also sharply focused; melancholy yet resolute.
Composed, performed and recorded by Wiggs, with drums and electronics by her longtime friend and collaborator Jon Mattock (Spacemen3, Spiritualized), We Fall is a lyrical, bucolic album with an undercurrent of disquiet. True to the classic form of an album, the 10 almost entirely instrumental tracks are a crystalline mediation on the paths not taken and words unspoken; an elegy for moments lost and last embraces.