Bold/Cowling’s debut album 'we may be on the way' is an audio-visual journey through the ruins and dreams of our past, present and future. Combining vintage soundtracks, speech, guitar and samples from video footage into a variety of atmospheres, noises, melodies and rhythms, they merge analogue and digital, lo-fi and hi-fi, old and new into a unique sound aesthetic. Most of the sampled material used on this album was found in 70s and 80s documentaries which deal with future technologies, ancient myths, the occult and aliens. Bold/Cowling use these topics as metaphors to formulate those questions which have been raised by culture ever since: about time, immortality, the nature of man and the search for meaning. Their compositional practice of interweaving sound, speech, references and topics takes many forms and offers no easy solutions. From spectacular to devastating moods and from abstract to song-like structures, this album confronts these existential questions in richly multifaceted ways. "The supernatural search of the past seemed like an antidote to the horrific terrors of anti-imaginative technocracy and constant information overload. At the same time, esotericism, aliens and recurring ancient myths are obviously a very present phenomenon, something like a perverted counter-stream to the hard and cold facts of modernity. So we don't use these beliefs and conspiracies in an ironic nor in an affirmative way. Instead we tried to link these out-of-time sentiments to fundamental questions which modern society and its culture try to avoid. About life, decay and eternal youth, about dreams and ghosts, about searching meaning and truth, becoming powerful, being stuck. Musically, it was crucial to say: We start with hauntology but we want to move beyond it. Its so confined to repetitions, loops, endless drones etc. Every piece of our album has a different dramaturgy, things can be unforeseen and miraculous (hopefully). We want to smash that depressive-melancholic predictability. It has such an overwhelming basis in our lives, so we have to go through it in order to really break with it."