The Fourth Wall

The Fourth Wall are melodic noise rock from Portland, OR, originally from Oahu, HI. What is the price we pay for joy, and is it worth it? The thread of this question runs taut through The Fourth Wall’s newest album, Return Forever, a fever dream of a record that unearths unresolved complexities of the immigrant experience in nine chapters. Throughout the album, songwriter Stephen Agustin circles a fire that feels so bright and yet so unknowable; there are not many answers to be found, only a disruption, the emergence of a world seen with new eyes.