More dark-tinged ambient music from Karsten Hamre (Penitent, Veiled Allusions, Arcane Art, Dense Vision Shrine etc.), and this time it's as stripped down as it could be: no martial drumming, no metal/rock/gothic influences, no symphonic keyboards (just a minimal pattern in the second track, "The Flood", whose melody incidentally reminded me of his other project The Flux Complex, if I'm not wrong)... Hamre has reduced everything to a low-end synth hum, distant metallic banging now and then, and other unidentified organic noises. It's probably not that thrilling in terms of composition, as everything is unbelievably minimal, but personally speaking I've found this one works very well as background music... not in a derogatory way, that is: you put the cd on and it lulls you while you're doing other things, or going to sleep. I definitely find more comfortable with this side of Hamre's rather than with his more bombastic works.