“The artist Fogelström faced the Accursed Mount's grasp in a battle as haunting and unique as the year’s finest dark ambient masterpiece that is Keeper Of The Mountains.”
Where fog gathers and wandering fires beckon: insectarium's irrwisch spins an elemental tale of spirits that delight in leading travelers astray, while Willebrant's The Knight Seas offers more music for the somnolent — slowed and reverbed bass, synths, and ebow guitar drifting through deep waters. 97 Sound Signal surfaces with deep aquatic ambient textures on Refraction Choir, and Subtlemanor's Never Alone layers tape, synth, and drift into something unguarded and quietly connective. fyr's a shepherd closes the field with a meditation on wandering, belonging, and the longing to be free.
“The artist Fogelström faced the Accursed Mount's grasp in a battle as haunting and unique as the year’s finest dark ambient masterpiece that is Keeper Of The Mountains.”
“At the heart of 'dream or memory's' compositions is a sense of mysteriously unfolding narrative, kindred in spirit to the works of influences Coil, Lynch, Svankmajer, Kurosawa and Ligotti.”