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Midnight Dome is Obfusc's third album release, offering a development of sound and style from his previous albums Internal Countryside and Cities of Cedar, with a flowing fusion of tracks and ambient elements. Midnight Dome is a progression for the artist in terms of both production and presentation. Each track segues perfectly into the next, enhancing the listening experience with a seamless flow that meanders between more concrete beat-based melodic tracks and ambient washes and textural interludes. In the artist’s own words: Working ambient interludes into the sequence, building them from field recordings of fragments of memory -- friends laughing on a beach at night, stomping down volcanic rocks in Iceland, rough takes of guitar recordings from who-knows-when -- makes it much more of a personal experience for me. I like to be able to tell someone I care about, "Remember the sea lions that we stumbled upon in Oregon?" That sound is buried deep, but it's there. It immortalizes some of my favourite moments of the last couple of years, a period of intense personal growth and self-realization. Review from Igloomag : Swaying light branches of shoegaze hidden in a predominately ambient-electronic album, Obfusc creates minuscule audio puzzles of dizzying complexity on the new Midnight Dome with Boltfish. Lost in waves of low-tones and memories from childhood, these foggy windows reveal early 90′s era Warp fragments; bass-beats, subtle melodic bursts, underwater meanderings, m