Those Who Ride With Giants • Forlorn [2xLP]

Forlorn by Those Who Ride With Giants on double clear vinyl. This is a Moment of Collapse Records' release. 

BIO

Under the evocative moniker Those Who Ride With Giants, Sydney-based designer and musician MJ Callaghan invites listeners into a cinematic post-rock odyssey that feels as intimate as it is immense. With Forlorn, Callaghan crafts more than just an album — he builds an immersive world, a soundscape woven with the grandeur of towering beings and the emotional weight of life’s most daunting seasons.

Each release in the project unfolds like a storybook, with every track serving as a chapter in an ongoing mythic journey. Forlorn continues this tradition with haunting elegance. From the opening moments, it envelopes the listener in a lush, spherical ambiance that exudes both grace and vulnerability. It’s a sonic pilgrimage where the traveler — perhaps you, perhaps someone else — navigates a vast and uncertain terrain filled with awe, dread, and moments of deep introspection.

The compositions are dense yet fluid, blending the introspective textures of ambient music with the emotional arcs of post-rock and a whisper of experimental flair. Guitar phrases swell and recede like tides — soulful, expansive, and laced with melancholy. Layers unfold with mathematical precision, revealing intelligent, progressive structures that never lose their emotional core. And just beneath the surface, one can trace neoclassical threads that give the entire album a sense of timeless resonance.

Forlorn is not background music. It demands — and rewards — attention. Like all great instrumental work, it tells a story without uttering a word, pulling you in with its atmospheric beauty and refusing to let go. Callaghan hasn’t just made an album; he’s built a world you’ll want to lose yourself in again and again.