said by Adam Harper himself:

Commotus is frozen between the continuance of life and the ghost of death, half-dead already because the end is nigh, forced to excavate the deep earth at its feet for any solutions it can. Before we can manage to see whether it’s building a bunker, planting a new crop or digging a grave, the dust cloud rolls in.

read it all here: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/lucrecia-dalt-interview