They Fled at Sunrise

They Fled at Sunrise was formed by the Carter siblings — Liam and Eira — along with their cousins Amara and Malik, all sharing a deep passion for mythology, popular lore, and fables. Their music is folk at its core, built on acoustic guitar, violin, accordion, upright bass, and trumpet, but the structures are anything but traditional. They fluctuate between songs with no chorus, no rhymes, to more traditional formats. 'The Anatomy of Love' is a six-part suite that dissects love through surreal anatomy. 'The Four Horsemen' arrive not as apocalypse, but as metaphor told in four chapters without a single refrain. Their lyrics retell Aesop, rewrite the Crane Wife, and invent new myths that feel ancient. Liam's baritone and Eira's soprano trade verses, overlap, and collide — sometimes storytelling, sometimes chanting, sometimes both at once. It's folk that insists on worldbuilding, on lore, on songs that unfold like short stories rather than pop structures.