This Window

This Is War by This Window A track from ' This Is War ' an album that was written and recorded at Morgue Studio (Devon) between 2025 and 2026. All tracks were mixed down April - May 2026. “This Is Not The Way It Should Be” — A Slow‑Burn Lament with a Reggae Pulse “This Is Not the Way It Should Be” is built around a warm, reggae‑inflected bassline played by Peter Bright , the track’s low‑end rolls forward with a quiet insistence, pushing against an arrangement that otherwise leans toward gothic minimalism . That tension — warmth beneath coldness, movement beneath stillness — becomes the song’s emotional engine. The instrumentation is deliberately sparse. Skeletal percussion keeps time like a heartbeat heard through a wall. Shadow‑leaning synths drift in and out of frame, more presence than melody. An angry piano chord punctuates the mix, a flash of human frustration in an otherwise subdued landscape. Over it all sits a vocal delivery that is sad, stark, and unmistakably Cohe...

There's plenty of life left in these old dogs... This Window has been around the block more than a few times on this mad, decades‑long creative journey — from cassette‑culture experiments to digital‑age reinventions. Yet somehow, against all logic and trend cycles, this eccentric, outsider strain of sound still resonates. Proof landed today: This Window has broken into a global Top 100 chart of alternative artists , a reminder that true independence and stubborn originality can outlast entire musical eras. Not bad for a project that was never supposed to fit neatly anywhere. This Is War by This Window This Window returns with This Is War , a compact, bruising collection that condenses the project’s restless experimentalism into nine tracks of darkwave, post‑punk, and analogue electronics. The album moves quickly — nine songs in just over half an hour — but each cut is carefully sculpted, trading immediate hooks for atmosphere and a sense of con...

This Is War by This Window This Is War This Window returns with This Is War , a compact, bruising collection that condenses the project’s restless experimentalism into nine tracks of darkwave, post‑punk, and analogue electronics. The album moves quickly — nine songs in just over half an hour — but each cut is carefully sculpted, trading immediate hooks for atmosphere and a sense of controlled unease. [^1] Recording and Production The majority of This Is War was written and recorded at Morgue Studios in Devon across 2025 and 2026. The sessions yield a record that feels both intimate and deliberately claustrophobic: synth textures and analogue grit sit close to the listener, while guitars and percussion are often mixed to accentuate tension rather than release. All tracks were mixed down in April–May 2026 , and the album was released in late May 2026. These production details help explain the record’s tight, immediate sound and its consistent tonal palette. [^1] Sound and Themes This ...

The Sampler #05 M4tr004 A joint release by This Window & Finish The Story Originally issued by M4TR Productions, 2005 A bridge between decades, The Sampler #05 gathers together the shadows, textures and raw emotional fingerprints that define This Window and Finish The Story . Buy Here A Rare Opportunity To Purchase A Collectable CD This is a genuine, factory‑pressed CD — not a CDr. The material was first issued in 2005; this edition is a strictly limited run of 50 copies. The cover artwork is a stripped‑back variant of the original commissioned design, created specifically to echo the minimalist, hand‑assembled aesthetic of the early This Window cassette culture releases. Tracklist & Recording / Release Dates 1/ Trapped In The Hometown - FTS - 1990 (3.45) 2/ Don't Think I Can Make It - TW - 2002 (1.55) 3/ Ciao Again - TW - 2005 (2.50) 4/ A Moment Longer - TW - 1996 (3.21) 5/ Crash87 - TW - 1989 (0.48) 6/ Playing At Life - FTS - 1985/86 (3.08) 7/ Solace - FTS - 1990 (4.06)...

Extraction 1989 by This Window Downloads Extraction — originally released by EE Tapes (ET06) in 1989 — returns here as a digital transfer from the original master tape . The material itself has a strangely archaeological quality: fragments literally gathered from the studio floor, lengths of ¼” tape spliced together , threaded through whatever machines were at hand, and mixed in a semi‑random, instinctive manner. Some of these sounds reach even further back, with source elements dating to 1978 . This download is sourced from the original master. Extraction pt.1 has been edited for language compliance, making this version suitable for all ages. Review of original cassette release: ★ THIS WINDOW – “EXTRACTION” (EE Tapes, Belgium, 1989) C60 / experimental electronics, tape‑manipulation, post‑industrial ambience There’s a peculiar tension running through Extraction , the sort of uneasy stillness you only get when someone has spent far too long alone with a reel‑to‑reel machine. This Win...

This is not a complete list more can be found on Discogs Below is a selection of other official releases by This Window , covering the project’s audio‑cassette compilation output during the 1980s and 1990s. Much of This Window’s early work emerged directly from the cassette‑culture underground , a decentralised, fiercely independent network of artists, labels and home‑recordists who exchanged music through the post. These tapes were often duplicated on domestic equipment, packaged by hand, and circulated via mail‑order lists, fanzines and word‑of‑mouth. The movement blurred the lines between sound, visual art and DIY publishing — a perfect environment for This Window’s experimental, textural approach. Alongside cassette culture, the project was also connected to the mail‑art movement , where artists traded handmade artworks, collages, sound pieces and ephemera across international postal networks. Releases often travelled the same routes as mail‑art exchanges, reaching listeners, colla...