This Window

  “ Is This Custer’s Last Stand? ” arrives like a warning flare — a jam‑packed jamboree of big, room‑shaking drums and overdriven guitars, all pushing forward with a kind of ragged determination. The vocal doesn’t shout; it asks. Almost under its breath, almost to itself: is this truly our last stand. The track sits somewhere between protest song and apocalyptic chant. The lyrics circle around collapse, identity, and the uneasy sense that history repeats whether we want it to or not. "as bottles on the racks are all full, inscribed with names but all faceless…” — a line that feels like a whole civilisation has been preserved, catalogued, and depersonalised. Extractivism by This Window The title nods toward the Battle of the Little Bighorn — Custer’s Last Stand — a moment mythologised, misremembered, and endlessly repurposed. But here it’s not about 1876. It’s about now: the sense of being outnumbered by events, outpaced by change, pushed to the edge of something we can’t quite nam...

This Album is completely free - no registration or email address required Hopeless 1988 - 2026 by This Window Hopeless 1988 - 2026 - Free!! Free Download This free digital compilation on Bandcamp, created as an open‑door introduction to the world of This Window. It gathers material recorded across nearly four decades, tracing the project’s evolution from its earliest cassette‑culture experiments to its current digital work. The tracks span sessions made on compact cassette and ¼‑inch reel‑to‑reel tape through to computer‑based recording and rendering. Heard together, they form a quiet documentary of changing methods, technologies and aesthetics — from analogue hiss and tape saturation to the cleaner, sculpted edges of digital production. Rather than a “best of”, it’s a cross‑section: fragments, sketches, finished pieces and recovered moments that map the shifting sound of This Window from 1988 right up to 2026. As a free download, it offers a simple way for new listeners to step into t...

Limited Offer... Fill in the form below for your free download of This Is War — the new 2026 album by This Window , provided exclusively via Bandcamp. This is a limited giveaway , so it’s strictly first come, first served . This Is War is a nine‑track darkwave/post‑punk release built from analogue electronics, stark minimalism, and the unmistakable DIY edge that has defined This Window since the early cassette‑culture days. Written and recorded at Morgue Studios (Devon) between 2025–2026, the album captures a raw, restless energy: fractured beats, cold synths, and a sense of tension that never quite resolves. Featuring tracks such as “This Is War,” “Lay Back,” “Blue Eyes,” “Where Is My Jesus?” and the 2026 re‑imagining of “Is It A Dream” , this release sits firmly in the lineage of experimental UK underground music — uncompromising, atmospheric, and fiercely independent. This free‑download offer applies to the album here:  This Is War

  The Goat — A Study in Outsider Compilation Culture Buy On Discogs A Various‑Artists Release With a Curatorial Edge Although technically a “Various Artists” release, The Goat feels curated rather than assembled. Each track contributes a distinct texture — from abrasive electronics to lo‑fi guitar sketches, from rhythmic experiments to atmospheric drift pieces. The sequencing is deliberate: the compilation moves like a mixtape made by someone with a deep affection for the obscure and the overlooked. Rather than smoothing the edges, the release celebrates them. The result is a portrait of a scene that doesn’t quite exist in one place, but emerges through shared sensibilities: independence, experimentation, and a refusal to conform to commercial expectations. Side A   A1. Mike Shirra with P.B. – Tonight A2. This Window – A Collection Of Pieces Of Tape Edited Together Side B   B1. Selfs Without Shells – Lived You Before B2. Selfs Without Shells – 2000 Years B3. S...

Cassette Culture transferred to CD in 2005 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.  Buy Here Tracklist & Recording / Release Dates Trapped In The Hometown - FTS - 1990 (3.45) Don't Think I Can Make It - TW - 2002 (1.55) Ciao Again - TW - 2005 (2.50) A Moment Longer - TW - 1996 (3.21) Crash87 - TW - 1989 (0.48) Playing At Life - FTS - 1985/86  (3.08) Solace - FTS - 1990 (4.06) Like A Sickle Runs Through Corn - FTS - 1985 (3.02) Naked - TW - 2005 (3.25) Nepal - TW - 1989 (4.37) Ripples In The Water - FTS - 1985 (1.15) Reviews “Finish The Story are one of Worcestershire's lost bands. Sinister, brooding, icy, haunting and ethereal - their music was like nothing else at the tim...

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...