Code I's soundscapes, intertwining harmonies and gentle guitar melodies take you on a journey through sound. They let your mind wander to new plateaus and bask in the audible sunshine, only to be interrupted by the eviscerating blows of desperate guitars and drums, transporting you to new worlds, a complete contrast to the ones you left behind. Code I’s innovative post rock - which forces you from one extreme to the other - connects hints of metal, hardcore and heavy rock, complete with intermingling segues of ambient and even orchestral. Code I has entered the post rock world, and kicked into its teeth a new, edgy niche, one which may be young but has the strength of all that came before, and adds to the genre a vitally fresh aesthetic of depth and introspection.

Code I has always combined elegant ambient sequences within his work; creating beautiful soundscapes and cerebral melodies that are only halted by the barrage of his rock and metal roots. ‘A Deep Red‘, is no exception.

Within this record, Code I’s home grown metal and rock roots flourish, these are most noticeable on the tracks ‘Broken Down’ and ‘Mesmerize’. This is not to say that Code I’s dark tonal elements have been made redundant, not at all. ‘A Deep Red’ takes you on a journey of slow burning guitar melodies, delicate sonic trade-offs and hard hitting guitars make this album an expedition of emotional and heart soothing proportions.

The one man post-rock ship, Alex Wilkinson, under the alias Code I has released a more uplifting EP than seen in his previous works. ‘Although We May Fall’ takes you on a journey of optimism, and suspense whilst still maintaining the power and force seen in his earlier album ‘A Deep Red’.

‘Although We May Fall’ was originally inspired by the ever growing discoveries of our solar system. New worlds and plains of existence have been a major factor in this EP’s conception and progression and this is reflected in songs such as ‘There is a Separate Path’ and ‘Return of the Black Star’.

‘Although We May Fall’ is indeed a true post-rock album lending to Code I’s earlier works. Combining heavy hard hitting riffs and melancholic atmospheres which will in no doubt, please the ears of post-metal and post-rock fan.