Hopeless 2007–2026 – Free Download

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This is the second instalment in This Window’s ongoing series of free digital compilations on Bandcamp — a set of open‑door releases designed to give new listeners a way into the project’s vast, shifting catalogue. Where the first Hopeless collection mapped earlier terrain, this volume focuses on the nineteen years between 2007 and 2026, a period marked by constant experimentation, changing tools, and a restless search for new ways to shape sound.

Across these tracks you can hear the project’s roots in cassette‑culture aesthetics — the rough edges, the tape hiss, the handmade feel — gradually intertwining with more contemporary digital methods. This Window has always been a project that treats recording itself as part of the art, and this compilation makes that evolution audible. Analogue fragments sit beside digitally sculpted pieces; lo‑fi sketches rub against more polished constructions; recovered moments and half‑forgotten sessions find new life in a different technological era.

Taken together, the collection becomes a quiet documentary of process: a record not just of music, but of the changing methods, technologies and aesthetics that shaped it. It charts how ideas were captured, lost, reworked, layered, and transformed over nearly two decades.

Importantly, Hopeless 2007–2026 is not a “best of”. It’s a cross‑section — a curated slice through the archive that reveals the project’s shifting identity over time. There are finished pieces, rough sketches, experiments that led somewhere, and experiments that didn’t. That breadth is the point. It shows This Window as it actually operates: exploratory, intuitive, sometimes raw, sometimes refined, always in motion.


Tracklist for Hopeless 2007–2026

  1. The Cock (2026) — 4:21

  2. Lament (2026) — 2:14

    • Lyric fragment: “Wine glasses smudged with your lipstick traces. The echo of your ghost still sings…”

  3. Salle De Bain Remix (2007) — 2:22

  4. Live on Soundart Radio (2008) — 3:55

  5. Carousel (2007) — 4:16

As a free download, the compilation offers an easy entry point for anyone curious about This Window’s long, strange arc. For long‑time followers, it’s a chance to revisit familiar textures and discover previously unheard material from the vaults. For newcomers, it’s a map — imperfect, intriguing, and open‑ended — into a body of work that has never stopped evolving.



Release information

  • Artist: This Window

  • Title: Hopeless 2007–2026

  • Format: Digital album (name‑your‑price)

  • Release date: June 3, 2026

  • Download quality: 16‑bit / 44.1 kHz, MP3, FLAC and more

  • Streaming: Unlimited via Bandcamp app for supporters

  • Tags/keywords: experimental, analogue, dark, darkwave, goth, synthwave, United Kingdom

Location: Europe

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