Forced Stasis/Rumonoise — Split

Here’s a two-way wall noise/ wallish harsh noise split- each party severs up between a twenty & thirty-minute track, and each is as searing and dense as the other. Featured are Slovakia’s Forced Stasis and Turin’s Rumonoise.

400 Lonely Things — Apologizing to Ghosts

Slipping another great release into an abundant 2026, 400 Lonely Things heads to Unexplained Sounds for their fourth of the year, Apologizing to Ghosts. A meditation on haunted houses and ghosts, this one hits during the spooky season and helps those currently in energetic fervor to find a way to deal with the non-corporeal beings around them. Eschewing an over-the-top, hokey fright fest, Apologizing to Ghosts takes the rational, day-to-day approach to sonic spectral interaction and presents a thoughtful, engaging work of environmental ambient music.

Alive With Static

Olion Interview

Active since the early 2020’s, Olion is one of the key projects within the euro wall-noise scene. To date, it’s put out around seventy releases- taking in both physical and digital form- with stand-alone releases, splits, and collaborations. Sound-wise, their output moves between pummelling, thick-yet oddly soothing. To more texturally layered, and forays into ANW. Behind the project is Olek Browiński from Olsztyn in northern Poland, and he kindly agreed to give us an email interview

Won’t You Ragnarok with Me?

A Julian Cope Primmer

Erupting into the mainstream on February 19th 1981, The Teardrop Explodes’ debut ‘Top of the Pops’ television performance featuring their brassy, bouncy hit ‘Reward’ is to this day probably the moment from which most people recall Julian Cope. If your image of Julian remains that of an earnest young budding pop star sporting a fleece-collared flying jacket and a shaggy bowlcut of shoulder-length tresses, if you failed to maintain pace with his entry into the cosmos, if you dismissively describe him (as I’ve seen thereabouts) as “a Smash Hits pin-up”, you have one hell of a lot of catching up to do. Musique Machine have tasked me with leading their readers through the psychedelic jungle and beyond, here, and I have to say that Julian probably merits the ‘beginners’ guide to’ / ‘recommended records’ treatment more than just about any other artist in the music sphere, at least in terms of how public perception and the ‘reality’ (if such a word is appropriate in this extreme case) have a near-unbridgeable gulf.