Hiraeth stands for "Longing for home" and is taken from the Welsh language. Due to the heavy middle eastern orientated music on the album and Haidar's personal background, it is a well-chosen title. Those middle eastern influences immediately are noticed in the album's opener Fly On, a strong composition that has some similarities with the Page Plant album No Quarter, creating a perfect balance between the two worlds. As the album continues, we get to listen to Lights Out where the influences are shifted towards the lies of Anathema. Strong acoustic guitars are accompanied by a nice Hammond organ and finished off with the smooth voice of Haidar and a nice acoustic guitar solo. After these two impressive openers, the guitars are cranked up to fuse the oriental element with powerful parts and vocal lines that tend to go towards Riverside's Mariusz Duda's style.