It’s impossible not to wonder what would have happened to Joy Division in the long run. If Curtis’s death reinforced their image as funeral and morbid, it also fixed their legacy in amber, preserved it for all time through circumstances that in retrospect seemed artistically inevitable. — Simon Armitage in the liner notes for Eternal […]
Tag: 2026
Travellers Rest – “In the Citadel of Solitude” (2026)
Nick Wusz is back at it again with what I believe to be his sixth album under his nom-de-dungeon-synth Travellers Rest. I’ve been been following him since the start, having picked up all the prior cassettes and pre-ordering In the Citadel of Solitude, and once again he doesn’t disappoint. A melancholy thread runs through In […]
Nathan Nothing – “0 / 00” (2026)
I know next to nothing about Nathan Nothing (pun not originally intended, but I was too lazy to change it when it’s right there to be made). His Bandcamp page indicates he’s based in/from Brooklyn. He’s been on Instagram for just over a year and has 692 followers. He seems to have some unclear ties […]
Skjálfti – “Society of Witnesses” (2026)
Skjálfti is the noise project of Icelander Þórir Georg. Society of Witnesses is his first release on the recently re-vitalized Hundrað Prósent Plastík label (though hardly his first release – Skjálfti has been active since 2017), and right from the start it assaults the senses, a high-pitched whine boring a hole through your jaw like […]
1.44mb Label
1.44mb is an independent speciality label in Philadelphia I came across while researching Adam Buffington’s latest CD The Winter Loving Idiot, because, well, Adam is one of the two guys behind it. I was intrigued by 1.44mb for two reasons. The first and most obvious was the type of recordings they put out which can […]