Rooted in the wild coastal mythology of Wales, this record draws its power from the tension between open water and encroaching dark. Llyn Y Cwn — Welsh for "lake of the dogs," a reference to Cwn Annwn, the spectral hounds of Welsh folklore — builds slow, grey-toned drones that carry the weight of Atlantic weather and ancient landscape. The textures feel wind-scoured and salt-worn, never warm, never still. "Du Y Moroedd" translates roughly as "the blackness of the seas," and the album earns that title through patient, unhurried menace.