This Window

Extractivism by This Window Listen Here The Age of Reason is a stark meditation on the moment innocence fractures and self-awareness takes its place. Drawing loosely from Sartre’s existential landscape—Nausea, Iron in the Soul—the track moves through a world stripped of comforting illusions, where play gives way to responsibility and warmth recedes into the cold light of consciousness. “Reprieve was promised for us tonight / Our history is written in black and white.” The lyric hints at Sartre’s idea of bad faith: the human urge to hide from freedom behind fixed narratives and borrowed meanings. Love and guilt, peace and conflict, all collapse into binaries. The “reprieve” becomes a false shelter, and the “black and white” history suggests a story already written, leaving no room for ambiguity or choice. What remains is a philosophical lament—an elegy for the playful self and a clear-eyed co...

Extractivism by This Window New Download Album Released Extractivism by This Window Listen Here 11 tracks for only £4.00 This digital album brings together a collection of new tracks that have never been released before, alongside rediscovered pieces and fresh remixes. It offers a new chapter in the long, shape‑shifting story of This Window — a project that has existed on the fringes of experimental music since the 1980s. Formed within the UK’s cassette‑culture underground, This Window has always operated in the borderlands: part post‑industrial, part minimal synth, part sound‑art, part lo‑fi experimentation. Across decades of tapes, vinyl, CD‑Rs and digital releases, the project has remained defiantly independent, favouring texture, atmosphere and emotional undercurrents over conventional song structures. The sound has shifted with each era — from raw four‑track recordings to more sculpted electronic work — but the ethos has stayed constant: intimate, handmade, exploratory. This coll...

Avocets by This Window Avocets is now available to download. Downloads Grow Tired In Long Grass Avocets comes across as a small, self‑contained anomaly in the This Window catalogue — a piece that feels both minimal and quietly disorienting. Originally released in 2009, it revolves around a hypnotic beat, the kind that feels like it’s pulling you forward even as everything around it stays eerily still. Over that pulse, a single church bell tolls like a fragment of some half‑remembered ritual, while a feeding‑back guitar threads through the mix in thin, needling arcs.  The restraint is the point: nothing explodes, nothing resolves, and yet the tension never drops. It’s edged, unsettled, and slightly uncanny — a study in how little you need to create a mood that lingers long after the track ends. L’Avocette est un échassier noir et blanc au plumage très distinctif, doté d’un long bec recourbé vers le haut ; le morceau Avocets est une chanson dont le texte frôle volontairement le surr...

Blue Eyes by This Window Blue Eyes is now available to download. Downloads Blue Eyes — A Love Story Written in Shadows Rain can be heard as crashing guitars and driving bass sit nicely within the steady drum beat. In Blue Eyes by This Window, desire is not a gentle tide but a riptide—pulling the narrator into a love that feels as much like possession as it does devotion. The song’s central image—“she stole my soul in her lipstick case”—is a perfect encapsulation of its mood: glamour edged with danger, intimacy laced with theft. The woman at the heart of the story is no fragile muse. She is strong, independent, and entirely self-possessed, her beauty sharpened by the knowledge of her own power. She is the kind of figure who could walk out of a Bronte novel and into a neon-lit city street—equal parts Catherine Earnshaw and a heroine from a glossy chick-lit paperback, the kind who wears heartbreak like perfume. Love or Hate? The narrator’s voice trembles between worship and accusation. Is...

Morning by This Window Morning  is now available to download. Downloads Morning is a complex mix of vocals, guitar, bass and distorted synth chaos (which only slightly imposses itself in the mix) - all of this over a steady drumbeat. Originally released in 1989 on the cassette album Jude The Obscure (M4TR Productions), the track sits within the project’s early blend of experimental electronics, art‑rock edges, and emotional understatement. Like much of the album, it feels handmade and human: a moment captured on tape rather than polished for effect. Missing a loved one while they’re away—a post‑punk love song stripped back to its bones, where distance sharpens every small memory. There’s a sense of waiting threaded through the piece: the quiet hours, the half‑formed thoughts, the way longing becomes its own rhythm.   Released 1989   ©all rights reserved   

39 by This Window 39  is now available to download. Downloads The vocals sit coolly above the mix, delivered with a kind of measured detachment that only sharpens the impact. Backing vocals shadow the lead in tight formation, adding depth without softening the edges. What drives 39 isn’t volume or excess but controlled overdrive — distortion used as texture, not spectacle. 39 is one of those tracks that doesn’t announce itself so much as materialise — lean, unfussy, and locked into its own internal logic. The guitars open the piece with a low, prowling confidence, effectively sketching the bassline before the rhythm section snaps into place. That ’90s drum‑machine throb gives the track its spine: mechanical, insistent, and perfectly suited to This Window’s long‑standing fascination with tension built from minimal means. In a catalogue that spans decades and formats, 39 feels like a distilled statement of intent: a reminder that This Window’s power has always come from precision...