Amira Elfeky is rocking stages with The Used and Story Of The Year, but that hasn't stopped the nu-gaze powerhouse from unveiling her most hypnotic offering. On "Remains of Us," her first-ever collaboration, Elfeky teams up with Scarlet House, the Rammstein-approved, one-person band, to create a hauntingly beautiful meditation on love, obsession, and loss.
Steeped in a smoky, cinematic haze, "Remains of Us" unspools with brooding guitar strokes with spectral harmonies that pull you into its moody embrace. Then, like a squall rolling in, crashing percussion and a thick, rumbling bassline come into the mix and set up Elfeky's vocals, delicate yet commanding, spectral yet anchored. As she exhales lines like, "Another thought of you and me And everything that we'll never be And I pray Your eyes stay fixed on me, I am lost in your reverie," "Remains of Us" balances on that tightrope between longing and despair. This dichotomy serves as a reflection of the magnetic but destructive forces of an all-consuming love.
Tapping into the visceral textures of Deftones and Evanescence but still very much of her design, Elfeky blurs the line of dream and nightmare in this heady sonic swirl. Scarlet House, celebrated for his knack for building immersive soundscapes, magnifies "Remains of Us" visceral dynamism, "Remains of Us" is a collaboration that feels fated but also entirely new.
Haunting, visceral, and impossible to shake, "Remains of Us" secures Elfeky and Scarlet House as a duo that can bend the bounds of alt-rock and nu-gaze. For fans of music that sticks with you long after your ears stop ringing.