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'Iraena's Ashes' the album by ALPINE FAULT is a thoughtful study of the themes of loss and separation, love and death. Inspired by true events, the album's narrative relates the story of the tragic 2004 disappearance of young model and student-teacher, Iraena Asher, in the area around New Zealand's notoriously treacherous surf beach, Piha. "[Iraena's Ashes] didn't start off as a story about Iraena walking into the ocean..." sa...ys Ant Royle, guitarist and male-half of the dual-vocal six-piece, before going on to explain that it is a collection of works the origins of which stem back to a former version of the band right up to the now Brisbane-based current era. "As we started piecing it together though, we realised that the story was taking shape on its own and certain feelings and themes started to emerge and bind it together. I actually remember having this kind of spooky feeling about the way it was coming together as if something (or someone) was involved in putting the pieces