The beloved drummer of the collective, II, posted on this day a drum cam of the song 'Higher'. Thus ended their appearance at the 28th Full Force Festival in Gräfenhainichen, Germany on June 24 2023. This was a part of Sleep Token's United Kingdom & Europe Summer Rituals tour in 2023. [IG]
James was sprawled halfway on the bed. It seemed he hadn’t quite made it before he collapsed.
“He’s such a pain!” Remus huffed, tiredly. They gathered their things and went to the bathroom to brush their teeth and get ready for bed.
When they came back, James had somehow slid further off the bed. Together they hauled and heaved his heavy, broad body higher onto the bed.
“I’m going to need a shower after this,” Sirius complained. "I’m sweating."
“No point,” Remus panted, wiping his arm across an equally sweaty face. “His body heat is going to roast us tonight anyway. Might as well get up a bit earlier and enjoy one in the morning.”
“Oh, Moony, you say the dirtiest things.” Sirius fluttered his eyelashes as he lifted James's arm and tucked himself underneath it. “Goodnight love of my life,”
“Goodnight sweetheart,” Remus replied, and he turned off the light.
Sirius awoke to James fully on top of him. He had no idea how he hadn’t felt him move. He was slick with sweat from the furnace crushing him into the mattress. He tried to draw in a breath, but he found he was only able to get a shallow breath in before his chest ran out of room to expand.
He couldn’t even turn his head to see where Remus was as James’s head was on his shoulder, breathing hot air into his face. He tried to wriggle out, but he couldn’t move an inch.
“Need some help?” Remus suddenly appeared next to him, beside the bed.
“Thank fuck!” Sirius wheezed. Remus shoved his hands under James’s side and rolled him, with some difficulty, just enough to let Sirius flop out onto the floor. “Thank you,” He coughed as air rushed back into his starving lungs.
They hopped into the shower together, luxuriating in the warm water and each other.
James still wasn’t awake when they were ready to go, so they left him, snoring away in their bed. He’d be fine. He’d probably clean the flat once he woke up and then come and apologise profusely for the broken sofa. At least it had been old and in need of replacement anyway. Jimmy had done them a favour really. Sirius kissed the back of Remus’s hand as they locked up and walked the short distance to the café.
As they walked past the park, Sirius did a double take. He could have sworn he saw Regulus walking past the cluster of trees, but when he looked back he was nowhere to be seen. He screwed his eyes shut. It must have been a trick of the light. He put it out of his mind as the café came into view. He grinned at the familiar sight. He couldn’t wait to see what today would be like.
I expected a more difficult background but as it turns out the 2 potential moments in higher for this Iris base both have very simple ones so yay for that, you get both lol
I do think it's fun to keep Prax looking just a little bit evil in these, she's still a bad bitch.
While we're on the topic of Higher, I'd like to point out that it is among the few songs that Vessel directly calls himself a threat. As in, directly states that he is a danger.
There's the usual (hate to call it 'usual', but bear with me) self loathing, but then there's "I am a danger". No other song states that; it's said in others that he's a bad person, a vacuum, but none other than Higher says that he is a threat.
As has been occurring since June 2019, this day Sleep Token posted a teaser video and link to the now released track 5, Higher, of the forthcoming album, Sundowning. This album would be released in full on November 22 2019. [FB/X]
Official Higher visualiser, released August 15 2019. [YT]