Essential dark ambient from Mick Harris, masterfully produced with a semi-analog depth of production to rival the Marianas Trench. Not one to fuck with much metaphor (unless it was contemptuous as shit), Mick brazenly explores the theme of dreams in general, from the melancholy to complete night-terrors. While every song is fully realized with a complex life of it's own, all the usual feels of isolationism are still exhaustively toured: lost in black holes, stuck in the actual Marianas Trench, flying the clouds of Mordor and all that other goth stuff the kids are into these days. Several tracks adopt a primitive rhythmic quality and hypnotic use of samples that reminds me of the earliest industrial, like Ramleh (a project even Mick has stated admiring). Though the compositions may possibly borrow from that and are highly eclectic, this is really dark ambient in it's purest form. Peep some listens yo...
