The Blackshore Tape gathers tracks from an abandoned album Dobson wrote in 2016, conceived on a retreat in an old fisherman's hut on the Blackshore Quay, on the banks of the River Blyth just south of Southwold.
He set up a rudimentary studio in the hut's single room, and at night would walk out into the pitch black, with not a soul around, to find some much-needed perspective under the night sky.
Dobson later shelved the material in favour of the work he was developing with Dom Graveson, which became Set the Weather Fair — but the trip proved a fundamental pivot, both personally and creatively. It was also where the Of the Night Sky project was first conceived.
The EP is released through the inspirational label Castles In Space, exclusively for subscribers to their subscription library.