Shepherd introduces two tracks shaped by themes of distance, emotional weight, and difficult choices. With stripped-down arrangements and slow-building tension, the EP evokes the feeling of standing still while the world shifts around you. It’s a quiet, personal work, honest, heavy, and unafraid of silence.
The Night the Shepherd Decided to Leave
This original composition simulates the mental state of a breaking point. Built around suspended guitar harmonies and a rhythm that hesitates more than it progresses, the track evokes a feeling of spiritual unrest. It mirrors the moment of a difficult decision, the type that causes both relief and guilt. There’s a sense of absence, of something left behind.
I Don’t Care / Board the Doors
This is a reinterpretation of I Don’t Care by the Ramones, transformed through Durmma’s sonic lens into something slow, echoing, and heavy with detachment. Stripping the original of its punk energy, Jaaairo reimagines the track as an ambient dirge, a cry of apathy in slow motion. It’s paired with a short original outro (Board the Doors) that acts as a dark descent, like closing off the world after an emotional crash.