The album was critically acclaimed and noted for the band's exotic arctic sound, a reviewer in Melody Maker writing: "They are very much the product of their environment.

Notes fall in flurries and sudden, sharp showers, a flute whistles in furious competition with the wind, there's the tinkling of iron bells, the tapping of woodblocks and distant rumblings.

It's given a similar treatment elsewhere, but in the title track it's less fragile, calling for the relief of darkness, for moonlight and the accompanying roses and love, yet only finding footprints in the snow.

With Baltic Ice-Breaker she scratches, screams and whines as nature again triumphs over man.

With Capio it sounds like a celestial choir, as though a host of Ibsen's ghosts are in the machine.