This Window

“This Is War” lands like a late-night broadcast from inside the machinery—dark wave and post-industrial grit filtered through a DIY, analog-minded sensibility. It’s short on runtime but dense in feeling, moving quickly from fractured atmosphere to direct emotional statements, with the kind of tension that makes every transition feel deliberate. Musically, the album leans into contrasts: harshness versus tenderness, dread versus a kind of fragile composure. The opening sequence sets the mood fast—“This Is War” (01:54) plays like the thesis statement—before the record settles into a steadier momentum with “Lay Back” and the eerie melodic pull of “Blue Eyes”. From there, it keeps tightening its emotional knot. “Where Is My Jesus?” reads like a moment of spiritual searching that never quite becomes catharsis, and “This Is Not The Way It Should Be” makes the album’s “shame / denial / echo” themes explicit—framing a world where old strength has gone, replaced by shadow, repet...

Extraction 1989 – This Window A review: "Extraction 1989 is one of those releases that reminds you exactly why the UK’s cassette‑culture underground mattered. It’s not nostalgia; it’s the shock of hearing a project at the moment its language crystallises. This Window’s 1989 tape—now reissued from the original master—captures a shift from raw DIY abrasion toward something more atmospheric, more deliberate, and more quietly unsettling." Extraction — originally released by EE Tapes (ET06) in 1989 — returns here as a digital transfer from the original master tape . The material itself has a strangely archaeological quality: fragments literally gathered from the studio floor, lengths of ¼” tape spliced together , threaded through whatever machines were at hand, and mixed in a semi‑random, instinctive manner. Some of these sounds reach even further back, with source elements dating to 1978 . This download is sourced from the original master. Downloads Extraction pt.1 has bee...