It’s by design that Cold Blue has taken the longer road back to back to LP life. For a man with as much affinity for the current season as he, it’s significant that he refuses to work in regular album cycles. Indeed, ‘desire’ remains the only point on his production compass. As such, it’s been six rotations since the release of Winter — his debut longform, and one which set a new high-water mark in electronic music purity and definition. ‘Mountain’, his sophomore work (arriving Nov 14), is certainly a continuum of that, but also one that, over time, may prove to be his artistic zenith. It’s the product of a creator who places studio craft over song, atmospheres beyond clubfloor furore, … and patience - quite simply, above all other concerns. Now, that patience — both his and yours — is rewarded through the release of the extraordinary ‘Mountain’ . If 2019’s ‘Winter’ captured Cold Blue at his most expansive, then ‘Mountain’ finds him in sharper relief — more distilled and even more deliberate in its pursuit of a singular vision. As ‘Winter’ went widescreen and was mapped out across a full season, in title and tone, ‘Mountain’ pointedly looks up as opposed to out, tracking the dynamics of an ascent. Of its creation and his connection to the subject matter, Tobias says: “Ascending alpine peaks has been a life- long passion, providing inspiration for music and life. This album, 4 years in the making, expresses my ongoing personal inner mountain journey of growing and healing, of fearing and loving, of letting go and reconnecting.” The album also embodies the idea of ‘music as a wordless language’.