Cinematic post-rock project I am waiting for you last summer have returned with Without/Within, their most ambitious and emotionally charged album to date. Formed in Ryazan, Russia in 2011 at a This Will Destroy You concert, the trio—Sasha Sokolov, Evgenii Popov, and Lev Nikitin—have crafted an expansive sonic journey that explores the fragile boundaries between inner and outer worlds, consciousness and cosmos.
The album’s concept, Sokolov explains, centers on the mystery of awareness itself—how it forms, perceives, and divides the world into dualities. “Nulla,” the lead single, captures that idea in sound: a haunting, ascending composition that swells with synth textures, echoing percussion, and celestial atmospherics. “Nulla was inspired by the idea that we — as living matter — are part of an evolving process that, at some point, begins to question itself,” says Sokolov. “There’s something powerful in the image of consciousness emerging from the same material that forms stars and planets — and then turning inward to ask: What am I? What is this?”
Known for their immersive live shows that merge light, motion, and sound into something almost physical, I am waiting for you last summer have earned global acclaim from stages like SXSW, dunk!festival, and Magnetic Fields, performing alongside genre heavyweights including 65daysofstatic, Alcest, and Rosetta. Sokolov’s background in crafting music for major film trailers such as Jurassic World and Captain America: The Winter Soldier lends the band’s sound an unmistakable cinematic gravity.
Without/Within unfolds like a science fiction narrative of self-awareness, blending ambient soundscapes, industrial pulses, and vast emotional crescendos. Across ten tracks—Message, Contact, Unknown, Redshift, Threshold, Nulla, Entangled, Tides, Gravity, and Quiet Sun—the band balances introspection with momentum, turning each moment into a meditation on being itself.
This is I am waiting for you last summer at their most expansive, spiritual, and human. Without/Within isn’t just an album—it’s a question whispered to the universe and reflected back in sound.
Without/Within Track Listing:
1. Message
2. Contact
3. Unknown
4. Redshift
5. Threshold
6. Nulla
7. Entangled
8. Tides
9. Gravity
10. Quiet Sun