follows years of Hodges releasing music as Longshoreman and playing various instruments with psych-folk band Nighttime, with the title track arriving as the first preview of the album.

Speaking about "Howling World", Hodges says: "This song came out of René Magritte's painting Young Girl Eating a Bird. I was drawn to the contradiction in the image — she seems to be turning away from the world while at the same time literally devouring a piece of it. There's something wild and irrational about the act that I felt I understood without being able to fully explain. The 'howling world' became both the senseless world she's turning away from and the one she's suddenly part of."

combines singer-songwriter composition with doom metal and post-rock, drawing inspiration from Jason Molina and the films of Béla Tarr. The album began coming together in 2020, with Hodges initially intending for it to be his "version of a -style record". But after having a change of heart, he brought in friends from the Hudson Valley/New York musical community, with Nighttime bandleader Eva Louise Goodman contributing vocals and violin, Kristen Drymala adding cello, and Miles Hewitt playing bass, with additional contributions from Jared Ashdown and Gabriel Birnbaum on saxophones and Otto Hauser on drums.

"Blue"
"Fields of Light"
"Howling World"
"Woodlawn Girl"
"Appearing at Dusk"
"Maze of Dreams"
"Earthrise"
"Glahn"
"Shōmetsu / Kodō"
"Great Darkness"