Dispatches from the Underground // September 2025 – Pt. 1

New Music

elijah jamal asani – ,,, as long as i long to memorise your sky ,,, (akp recordings) (h/t Dillon)

Professeur Whom – I can hear the universe breathe / It will cause you to shiver and shudder and have a tingle in your ears

N + [ B O L T ] + Volker Kamp – Seagull (Cruel Nature) / Drone, dark ambient jazz & electronic textures converge in four hefty immersive tracks

Thresher V 2.0 – Zaugg (Outcast Tape Infirmary)

Covolux – Solitudinarian (Earthrid) / This is an immersive, ecstatic and verdant kind of alone. This is the joy and wonder of hermitude – Listening Habit

Heejin Jang – Souvenirs From Hell (Venalism) / The hardest-working woman in noisy-ass music has a new tape out and it looks very red – sporksticks

Fled Astray – Demagogue Go (Wormhole World) / Look, this world is shit chips yeah? But my pal Syd has made this great record with Alig Fodder (from Family Fodder) and more of you should know about it – Stuart Benjamin Pulls It Off

Headless Kross / Pound Land Split (Cruel Nature) / Heavy riffers Headless Kross & Pound Land make a Faustian pact & conjure up a skull-crushing split album

Listening Recommendations

Hatchet Field – Gather Them Home / a slow burner but well worth sitting with, as it transcends ‘doom folk’ to touch moments of real beauty #LunchtimeListening – Robert Dallas Gray

EOD – Utrecht (h/t odubhda)

Landless – Lúireach (h/t odubhda)

Joseph Curwen – From Beyond (Cruel Nature) / Low-end sinister post-rave HP Lovecraft inspired dark evil drones

Francis Harris – Trivial Occupations (h/t Robert Dallas Gray)

Healees – Coin de l’œil (Safe Suburban Home) / Ride, Flyying Colours, MBV they meld it uniquely. They can reproduce it live too, anticipating seeing them again at the Shoegaze All Dayer in London on 8 November – Andrea