Sounding 017 — Remastered Dreams
Jan Van den Broeke: many names, one sound — a voice that hardly sings, a language that arrives a little late, and an archive that opens a box at a time.
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Sounding 016 — Gloss & Eggshell
Operating Theatre: a Dublin theatre-and-synth duo, a first Fairlight, a voice from the stage — three songs on repeat this week.
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Sounding 015 — Lucid Dusk
Kuniyuki Takahashi’s Early Tape Works: music for the hour between the day and the dark — soft enough to hold you, awake enough not to let go.
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Sounding 014 — Autumnal Slumber, 2026
Universal Ambients: a YouTube channel that gives every hour of ambient music a painting and a date, and asks you to go in.
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Sounding 013 — Pixie Autolysis
Autolysia’s Rainbow Realm (2024): depressive black metal with a sweet tooth — a fairytale walking through the woods with a blade under its tongue.
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Sounding 012 — Invalid
Die Form’s Die Puppe (1982): a doll with a syringe on the cover, a mainspring where the melodies should be, and one of my favourite upbeat industrial records.
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Sounding 010 — Jõudu tarvis (Strength is needed)
Nahtrunar’s Wolfsstunde: an Austrian black-metal record that behaves like a single passage through that seam between night and morning.
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Sounding 009 — The Low Red Hour
J.J. Cale: warm, offhand American music, taken up across a single August — late summer beginning its slow combustion into autumn.
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Sounding 008 — The Colour of Tar
For a week I have lived inside three Urfaust songs — a Dutch duo who kept the devil and the light in the same throat — and the feeling still refuses its name.
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Sounding 007 — Leere
Glaring: not one album this time but a whole body of work — the artist I return to most in this corner of music.
