“Fading Lights” is the debut track from Lost Between The Roads, the solo instrumental post-rock project of Italian musician Antonio La Rocca, known as WeiR.
Released on July 9, 2025, the track weaves ambient textures, subdued melodies, and a quiet emotional build that mirrors his shifting experience of place and time.
Composed, performed, recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely in his home studio, “Fading Lights” reflects a solitary but deliberate approach to music-making. It is grounded in personal dislocation and the persistent pull of memory. “This project was born out of movement, both physical and emotional,” WeiR explains.
After a decade of transitions between cities and countries, often dictated by external circumstances, he began to recognize how the steady erosion of familiar environments reshaped his inner world.
“You rarely stop. You adapt. You lose touch with places, people, routines,” he writes. The title “Fading Lights” evokes those lost daily anchors—replaced, blurred, or left behind. What remained constant was music, which he describes as his only true “home.”
The sound on this first release blends shimmering guitar lines and cinematic crescendos with a sense of fragile balance. WeiR cites Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, and This Will Destroy You as core influences.
While many bands have shaped his taste, there’s one track in particular that crystallized his vision. “More than sharing a playlist, I’d rather share one single song that encapsulates everything I strive to feel and evoke with music: Explosions in the Sky – Catastrophe and the Cure. I’ve seen them live three times, and every single time I tell myself I won’t cry… but I do.”
This intensity of feeling—raw and stripped of distraction—is what he hopes listeners will encounter in his own work. “That’s what music is supposed to do for me: bring out something raw and pure, a moment of catharsis that breaks through the noise of life. That’s what I hope Fading Lights can offer—even just a glimpse.”
WeiR’s past includes involvement in several alternative music projects in Sicily—Before We Die, Diane and the Shell, and Near the Blockhouse—but Lost Between The Roads steps away from those collective efforts.
Now based between Spain and Italy, he uses the project to chart a more internal, visually driven sonic world. “Fading Lights” is, in his words, “a meditation on impermanence and memory, shaped by real places I’ve lived in or passed through. Forests, concrete, empty stations, rented rooms—they’ve all added something to this sound.”
“Fading Lights” is available now via Bandcamp and all streaming platforms. An EP is currently in the works, expected later this year.
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