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Leonard Cohen’s Favourite Games

September 18, 2026

Review: “Lay Back” – This Is War “Lay Back” unfolds like a half-lit confession, its pulse slow and deliberate, as though each beat is a breath taken between memories. The track doesn’t just reference Leonard Cohen’s Favourite Games and Beautiful Losers — it seems to inhabit their rooms, borrowing the scent of their cigarette smoke and the weight of their silences. It feels less like homage and more like a continuation of the same emotional architecture: a place where intimacy is always shadowed by doubt, and where desire is never cleanly separated from the ache that follows it. The vocal delivery is intimate yet detached, a voice speaking from the edge of a bed at 3 a.m., where desire and disillusionment lie tangled in the same sheets. There’s a sense of someone trying to articulate something fragile without letting it break in their hands. The instrumentation is sparse but deliberate — synth tones and low, percussive murmurs that feel like the hum of a radiator ...

The Dark Ages - Testing the Rig

September 17, 2026

There has always been a darker side to This Window ’s music, perhaps influenced by its association with the Goth scene and being in a support band for Bauhaus . “ The Dark Ages ” began as a simple track used to test the studio’s synth setup. It features a couple of modular Eurorack banks, including Moog and Doepfer modules, alongside a Panasonic SX‑KC600 keyboard/synth that had been brought out of retirement. This inexpensive keyboard has surprisingly rich organ and string sounds, which blend with the modular mayhem to create a dark, atmospheric 1980s analogue synth sound. Watch the video to see some of the kit used to make the track The track is a nostalgic look back to the old days—some of them good, and quite a few of them best forgotten.

Analogue Swell Between Two Waves

September 17, 2026

Between Two Waves Between Two Waves drifts in on a slow analogue swell, its synth tones rising and folding like a tide gathering intent. The opening carries that familiar Woolacombe hush — the suspended moment before a set rolls in, when the sea seems to inhale. It’s a weightless pulse, the same poised stillness felt sitting on a board just beyond the break, waiting for the Atlantic to decide what comes next. Hopeless 1989 - 2026 by This Window Download For Free Gradually, the pulse tightens. Layers thicken. The sound begins to lean forward, mirroring the way a wave starts to steep and harden, pulling its energy into a single line. Living in Woolacombe — a place where the ocean doesn’t simply arrive but asserts itself — teaches you to read that shift. Calm surface becomes gathering power, and the track follows that same physics. What begins as a drifting shimmer locks into a 120bpm surge , the moment where the wave stands up and everything accelerates. A pound...

An English Eccentric – 1980/81 - Download

September 16, 2026

An English Eccentric – 1980/81: Contextualising Early Cassette Works by Peter Bright Download An English Eccentric – 1980/81 comprises a series of cassette recordings presented in their original, unedited form. These recordings were not conceived as works for public dissemination; rather, they functioned as working notes, provisional sketches and exploratory fragments. Their preservation of tape hiss, mechanical instability and environmental noise situates them within the material conditions of early domestic recording practices, offering insight into the creative processes that preceded later formal outputs. Between 1980 and 1981, Peter Bright was simultaneously involved in several experimental music projects, including T.34 , In A Glass Darkly , and Finish The Story . The recordings gathered here were produced in the interstices of these activities — often late at night or in the liminal hours surrounding rehearsals and performances. As such, they occupy a space betwe...

Fractured Messages and the Art of Interference

September 14, 2026

Broken signals in horror and paranormal TV turns static into meaning—messages arrive warped and never whole, inviting viewers to finish the sentence. Never finish the story – what is the narrative? Every genre has its shortcuts to emotion. Horror films lean on shadows. Paranormal TV leans on suggestion. But one device cuts across all of them: the broken signal. A message that arrives damaged, incomplete, or warped — something that feels like communication but refuses to settle into certainty. On shows like Help! My House Is Haunted , the technology is half the theatre. Scanners sweep radio frequencies, software isolates static, and investigators listen for anything that might resemble intention. A clipped syllable becomes a warning. A hiss becomes a sigh. A burst of interference becomes a voice from the dead. The audience is invited to finish the sentence, to supply the missing pieces, to believe that meaning can be extracted from noise. The message is never whol...

Performance in Venice

September 13, 2026

This Window occasionally releases pieces exclusively on YouTube , and this is one of those small, self‑contained vignettes: a field‑recorded fragment shaped into music. The city’s natural acoustics, the soft resonance of the lagoon, and the unpredictable rhythm of daily life form the backbone of the track. It’s less a composition and more a document — a brief, unrepeatable intersection between place, sound and time. A Rare Performance in Venice A moment captured in Venice, where the city itself becomes the instrument. The bells you hear are not effects or samples – they are the living soundscape of Venice in full voice. Piazza San Marco (St Mark’s Square) is the heart of the city, known locally simply as the Piazza . It has long been the centre of Venice’s social, religious and political life, and its daily soundtrack is a shifting cacophony of bells, footsteps, voices, and water echoing through stone. Watch the performance: Venice Highlights Venice is saturated w...

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