Inspired by the work of poet Olav Hauge and visual artist Joy Wolfenden-Brown, ‘The Dream We Carry’ is RAIJ's fifth full stand alone album - capturing echoes and fragile remnants: the joys, sorrows and dreams that we carry.
“The RAIJ is a project in pursuit of beauty; we have tried to jettison anything that doesn’t address that. We’ve been active for a long time and this album represents another phase in our work. We’re not trying to reinvent ourselves or be something we’re not. We’ve never done that. We only ever try to be more of ourselves.” RAIJ

'There’s a fair handful of bands and artists that, from this writer’s aesthetic perch, can pretty much do no wrong (Pete Astor comes to mind, The Monochrome Set, Sun Ra Magazine early XTC that’s enough for now) but for various reasons, not all of which are delineable, The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus doesn’t just belong to that class but are quite possibly at the head of it. They create via sound and voice an impact that’s emotionally and intellectually coincident with that of a novel that broke your heart while lifting your soul, of a scene from one of those movies that’s closest to the heat and sorrow of your own life’s experience, in the process amplifying that sweet ache of loveliness wherein, somewhat inexplicably, we sense like a breeze across our face the truest, most sublime essence of our existence in such a way as to make it not just tolerable but acceptable, and not just acceptable but, again, a thing of beauty and grace. Simply put, there’s no one more adept at the art of bringing the subtly vivid insinuations of these oddly-lived lives of ours into the light like the constantly-occuring epiphanies they are whether we recognize them as such or not, and on this singularly realized record, it feels a stride’s been hit that could hardly be outdone. And yet truthfully? We’d not be so foolish as to bet on that given the fact that, who knows, there just might be another RAIJ album in our future. But until then…'
Stereo Embers Magazine