This Window

This is an early preview of a forthcoming album planned for late Autumn or early Winter — a collection of new tracks shaped around memory, place and the small moments that stay with you long after they’ve passed. This collection looks back at ideas and half finished projects that have never been resolved, cast aside - half lost across the decades. Gathering fragments that were never dramatic or life‑altering, but quietly significant. These are the moments that nudged the work forward: a photograph, a walk, a sound, a fleeting encounter that somehow became part of a lifetime. Samantha Takes Photos grew out of a short story I wrote years ago. It recalls a simple walk in a Devon wood — the kind of place where trees feel more like stone, where time folds in on itself and the ancient becomes shorthand for now. During that walk, a sheepdog appeared from nowhere, joined us without hesitation, and gently escorted us back through a farm, all the way back to the car park. ...

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 whole. That’s th...

This Killing Thing (Live) and the ecological context of Wistman’s Wood The lyrics for this track were inspired by a visit to Wistman’s Wood in the late 1970s. Even back then, its environmental and cultural importance was well recognised, as it’s one of the most significant remaining fragments of Britain’s Atlantic temperate rainforest . Although small in extent, the wood represents a rare continuity of pre‑Neolithic forest ecology and provides a useful framework for understanding the track’s atmosphere, instability, and sense of impending destruction. This track is in many ways about man's impact on the environment - 'This killing thing inside this machine' -   we are, in fact, the killing thing. Where pitted stone becomes knotted oak... This Killing Thing (Live) captures This Window at their most unfiltered: a moment where chaos isn’t just present, it’s the entire accidental aesthetic. The mix is still being wrangled, the sound engineer is fighting a losing battle...

Triumphant Adventure The track Triumphant Adventure has had several lives. First released in 2007, the piece returns here in a new form — recorded live at Plac.Art.X in Regensburg, Germany, later reshaped and remixed at Morgue Studio (Devon) in 2026. What emerges is both a performance and a reconstruction, a work that carries its past inside its present. Technology has changed but the world appears to be stuck in the same loop... At the centre of the piece lies a single fragile artefact: the spoken line “triumphant adventure” — a phrase echoed by several astronauts during the 1960s and ’70s as they tried to articulate the surreal exhilaration of travelling into space at the height of the Cold War space race. That line was recorded onto a  1/4" tape loop , mixed with other material and then transferred onto a cassette in 1981 , where it gathered the hiss, wobble and mechanical drag that now define its character and the era. More Here Extractivism by This Window ...

Jig-Saw Man from Extractivism 2 by This Window Originally released on the 2007 CD of the same name, Jig‑Saw Man is one of those brief, surgical fragments that distils the core of This Window’s cut‑and‑splice aesthetic. Just over a minute long, it behaves like an opening incision: a jagged, flickering sound‑collage built from a dripping tap, a distant distorted guitar, and a boxed‑in vocal that feels half‑buried. Extractivism 2   Extractivism 2 by This Window Drawn from the project’s familiar palette of tape‑age textures, art‑rock abrasion and lo‑fi interference, Jig‑Saw Man plays like a puzzle assembling and unravelling in the same breath. It’s a miniature statement of intent — a reminder that This Window’s world is made of fragments, recovered moments, and ideas caught mid‑transformation. Appearing as Track 1 on the 2007 Jig‑Saw Man CD (M4TR Productions, m4tr005).

Free Download Sweet Charity (2026) Sweet Charity is one of those deceptively simple This Window pieces that reveals more the longer you sit with it. On the surface, it feels like a minimal, atmospheric vignette — but underneath, it’s a meditation on distance, observation, and the strange emotional static that fills the space between two people. At its core, Sweet Charity is about powerful women who have the confidence to know they are . This track is not melodramatic, not sentimental — more like a quiet ache, the kind that sits in the background of your day and colours everything without announcing itself. That tension between restraint and emotion is classic This Window: the feeling is there, but it’s filtered through digital shadows, and observational detachment. Lyrics: Her passions were as hot as the sand. The kind of heat that leaves you no shelter, a present that burns without touching, Rising in waves you could almost see. A warning delivered without any care. Step back, lean ...

Hopeless 1989–2026: A Free Archive of Shadows, Tape Hiss and Digital Ghosts Hopeless 1989–2026 is the latest entry in This Window ’s ongoing series of free digital compilations — a long‑running, open‑door introduction to one of the UK’s most quietly persistent underground artists. Available now on Bandcamp, the collection spans nearly four decades of work, tracing a path from cassette‑culture experimentation to contemporary Cubase ‑based digital construction. It’s not a “best of” so much as a living archive: a map of evolving tools, shifting aesthetics, and the stubborn survival of DIY creativity. Hopeless 1989 - 2026 by This Window The track artworks orbit a vivid, meticulously reconstructed world of 1950s pulp culture , steeped in the visual DNA of Pan Books , dime novels , and early‑’50s women’s fiction. Each piece feels like a salvaged relic from a sun‑struck spinner rack outside a seaside shop: bleached colours, over‑inked shadows, soft halftone textures, and that unmistakable b...

Extractivism 2 — This Window Download Extractivism 2 gathers a new set of unreleased material from This Window , alongside rediscovered fragments and freshly reworked pieces. It marks another turn in the long, shifting trajectory of a project that has lived on the outer edges of experimental music since the early 1980s. Born out of the UK’s cassette‑culture underground, This Window has always occupied the margins: part post‑industrial, part minimal synth, part sound‑art, part lo‑fi experiment. Across decades of tapes, vinyl, CD‑Rs and digital releases, the project has remained stubbornly independent, favouring texture, atmosphere and emotional undercurrents over conventional structures. The tools and surfaces have changed—from rough four‑track recordings to more sculpted electronic work—but the ethos has never moved: intimate, handmade, exploratory. Extractivism 2 continues that lineage. These tracks—newly uncovered, re‑edited or reimagined—trace the project’s ongoing evolution while...

Hopeless 1988 - 2026 by This Window A Moment Longer is now available to download. Downloads An analogue fantasy "A Moment Longer" unfolds from that simple description into something far more evocative and immersive: a slow‑breathing rhythmic synth pulse acting as the heartbeat , a bass line laid across it like a warm weight , and a guitar that drifts in and out of the frame , sometimes melodic, sometimes textural, always slightly out of reach. This sonic tapestry creates a sense of suspension—neither fully grounded nor entirely dreamlike—imbuing the track with a soft, ethereal pull toward intimacy that draws the listener in. The composition reads as a quiet confession, a tender nod to love and the act of making love, capturing those fragile seconds where time seems to stretch and the body becomes its own landscape. There’s an undeniable tenderness woven into the arrangement, evoking a sense of holding on to a fleeting moment that’s already slipping away, a delicate balance b...

The Cock by This Window Taken from a forthcoming album, The Cock blends together audio source material recorded throughout the 1980s — fragments captured on compact cassette, ¼‑inch reel‑to‑reel tape, and even a VHS handheld video camera. In 2026 these elements were pulled back into the light and rebuilt inside a new project using an older DAW, Cubase Studio 4 (version released in 2007) giving the piece a strange mix of analogue grit and early‑digital workflow.  Pumping synth pulses throb like a buried heartbeat, while a lone cockerel crows somewhere in the background — a ragged echo from a world long gone. It feels like an archaeological dig in sound: the unearthing of a chicken that once was somebody’s lunch, now elevated to relic status. A forgotten scrap of everyday life, resurrected through tape hiss, broken circuitry, and the accidental poetry of decay. Free downloads and more music: https://thiswindow.bandcamp.com/ The Cock feels like opening a sealed time‑capsule from ...

  “ 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 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...

Extractivism by This Window Downloads She Wolf by This Window is a haunting, powerful anthem of feminine strength and primal loyalty. With the evocative line “Not born from God but from the earth. I am a she wolf and I protect my family,” the track channels the spirit of a woman forged not by divine decree but by raw nature—fierce, grounded, and unapologetically protective. Extractivism by This Window 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 in...

Dance This Way by This Window Dance This Way by This Window is now available to download. Downloads Dance this way. Not a request — a command dressed as charm. A man moves through his evening as if it belongs solely to him. His girlfriend is not a companion but an accessory — something to position, display, or activate when it flatters his mood. She becomes part of the room’s furniture, folded into his social performance rather than invited into it. The power dynamic is quiet but unmistakable: the unspoken click of the fingers, the expectation that she will fall into step, smile on cue, dance when summoned. What looks like intimacy is really choreography. What he calls a relationship is closer to possession. We have reverted back to the Victorian era... Victorian attitudes toward women—where femininity was prized for its decorative and submissive qualities—continue to echo in modern society. The poem “Dance this Way” exposes this lingering toxicity: a woman reduced to a prop in a man’s...

Extractivism by This Window Listen Here Gone Like the Whispers of Silent Clouds began life as a soundtrack fragment — an extract recorded at Morgue Studios in 2026 for a short experimental video. Built around flickering Super 8 home‑movie footage and digital imagery, the piece mirrors the film’s drifting, dreamlike collage: half‑memory, half‑hallucination, always on the edge of dissolving. Gone Like The Whispers Of Silent Clouds from Extractivism by This Window   Musically, it occupies the borderlands where darkwave, minimal synth, post‑industrial and experimental gothic overlap. The foundation is a slow, deliberate pulse: brooding synth beds, cold atmospheres, and vocals that lean toward spoken word rather than song. The arrangement stays sparse and intentional — minimal electronics, icy textures, and non‑pop structures that echo the ethos of the 1980s cassette‑culture underground. Instead of building toward a hook, the track unfolds like a mood‑study: an audio vignette shaped ...

Extractivism by This Window Listen Here Misogynist, a track by This Window, was recorded around 2010, and the piece sits in that uneasy space where affection, resentment, and misread intentions blur into one another. Relationships often carry that dual charge — love and frustration, tenderness and volatility — and when the emotional weather turns unclear, people can end up misjudged or mislabelled. The weight of the word The title carries its own history. Misogynist comes from the Greek misogynḗs — miso- meaning “hatred” and gynḗ meaning “woman,” with the English suffix -ist indicating “a person who does something.” In modern use it can describe entrenched prejudice against women, but the track plays with the tension between accusation and misunderstanding. It hints at how quickly a person can be branded with a word that may not reflect the deeper, more complicated truth of a relationship’s dynamics. Extractivism -  a 2026 album from This Window This digital album brings together a...

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...