"Lead single and album opener ""Low Times"" sets the atmospheric pressure to maximum resembling a dream date between prime dirt-house era Andy Stott and Berlin dub-tech pioneers Basic Channel. From there Oblique descends into a series of enchanting mood scenes: the furtive balletic gyrations of ""After All"" the haunting ambience and buried heartbeat throb of ""Soft Collapse"" and the noirish atmospherics of ""Blackout Dust"" which worms its way into the mind like some forgotten David Lynch scene. The spirit of reggae is more distanced here than on DAMAGED but the ghost of Jamaican dub still permeates these foggy soundscapes particularly on ""Bombed Suburbs"" where Augustus Pablo-style melodicism is chopped screwed and slowed into a magnetic lock groove. Superficially minimal but maximal in its minute detail Oblique is a record of contorted reflections mesmeric echoes and tantalising audio mirages. By the vaporous mist of closing track ""Almost a Structure"" obvious rhythm has been craftily filtered away leaving a blurred and blunted residue full of mystery and implied narrative. Dense in the best possible sense and crushing when played loud yet equally potent played quiet Oblique imagines dub techno burning its own rigid rulebook: sensual funky and concussive rather than dry or alienating. Following Fiedler's recent work scoring Sound of Falling recognised at Cannes in 2025 Oblique finds Ghost Dubs shedding his influences and making it clear he has arrived at a sound entirely his own - essential deep listening and a bewitching dose of future shock."