Midnight Society

Released in 2023, Midnight Society represents a refined peak in Aaron Powell's work as Fog Lake. While maintaining the signature lo-fi aesthetic established on earlier releases like 'Dragonfly', this album demonstrates a more sophisticated grasp of song structure and atmospheric layering. Recorded with his trademark tape-saturated approach, the album leans heavily into the slowcore tradition of Duster or Low, but with a singer-songwriter intimacy that feels uniquely Canadian and isolated. The tracklist is paced with deliberate slowness, featuring longer compositions like 'Secret' and 'Die in Love' that allow the textures to breathe and decay. Critically, the album was noted for its ability to evoke a specific sense of place - specifically the rural, foggy landscapes of Newfoundland - through purely sonic means. It stands as a definitive document of the 'bedroom slowcore' movement of the early 2020s.