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 […]
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Benedictine Shadows – “Lamented Hymns” Cassette (2025)
If you’re of a certain age and you were into music in the mid-90s you probably remember a very odd “fad” – specifically the moment had by, of all things, monastic chants. It was kicked off by the 1994 album Chant by The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos, which was followed by Chant […]
The Best of 2024
Another year is in the books. They are just speeding by these days, which I suspect is a combination of me getting older and some kind of temporal distortion caused by COVID that seemed to change how time is experienced. Regardless, it was a good year in the Life In The Vinyl Lane household with […]
Travellers Rest – “A Nighttime Ramble” and “Journey To Raven Isle” (2024)
I’m starting to wonder if I should have re-named this blog Life in the Cassette Lane given how many cassette releases I seem to be writing about these days. This is driven primarily by my interest in dungeon synth, as cassette is, to a great extent, the preferred format in that genre. This includes my […]