This Window

A Space You Step Into  “Lay Back” has always been one of those tracks that doesn’t simply play in the background — it occupies space. It unfolds like a half‑lit confession, its pulse slow and deliberate, each beat a breath taken between memories. The track first appeared on the 2025 album This Is War, a release that pushed This Window further into the territory of intimate minimalism and emotional stillness. 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. 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. Sparse synth tones and low, percussive murmurs form the backbone of the piece, like the hum of a radiator in winter or the faint static...

The Roland SH-101 is an analogue synthesiser made by Roland between 1982 and 1986. It became widely used in the 1990s, especially in electronic and house music. The SH-101 is monophonic, meaning it plays one note at a time. It features a single oscillator, sub‑oscillator, low‑pass filter, mixer for blending waveforms, noise generator, arpeggiator, and sequencer. An ADSR envelope controls the filter and VCA, while an LFO can modulate the filter, VCA, pitch, and pulse width. Its sound is often described as “snappy and razor‑sharp” bass, “squelchy and expressive” leads, and a “piercing yet smooth” filter. The SH-101 appears on many Finish The Story songs and is frequently used on This Window tracks. At launch, it cost $495 in the US and £249 in the UK, making it relatively affordable compared to other analogue synthesisers of the time. Their Gods – Limited Free Mix – Homage to the SH-101 Pre-release mix · 5 minutes · Instrumental version Their Gods appear...

This video is made using a piece of home movie 8mm film from the 1970's. The Girl in the Black Bikini is a wistful vignette wrapped in sunlit melancholy—a sonic and lyrical meditation on fleeting beauty, memory, and the quiet rituals of observation. The track unfolds like a slow-motion snapshot, where every detail is imbued with symbolic weight: fluttering deckchairs, sand scattered with tiny stones, and the ephemeral imprint of a towel on the shore. Lyrical Atmosphere: The lyrics evoke a cinematic stillness, reminiscent of British seaside nostalgia filtered through a lens of existential longing. Phrases like “She lays on her towel like a ribbon drawn with sunlit ease” and “The English rose reclines into time’s indifferent cradle” suggest a delicate tension between presence and impermanence. The girl in the black bikini becomes both muse and metaphor—her beauty reigning briefly before being erased by the tide. Musical Texture: While the l...

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...

A Long Arc of Experiments, Accidents and Persistence Across the shifting landscape of British experimental music, This Window has remained one of the most quietly enduring presences — a project that has never chased scenes, trends or movements, but instead built its own slow, idiosyncratic path. For more than four decades, the work has unfolded through cassette culture, reel-to-reel tape, early digital experiments and contemporary rendering tools, always retaining a sense of rawness and curiosity that defines its identity. The Bandcamp release, Hopeless 1988–2026 , gathers five pieces from across that long timeline. It is presented as a free digital download, but its value lies far beyond its price. This is not a retrospective in the conventional sense. It is a cross-section — a set of fragments and finished works that reveal how the project has evolved, adapted and persisted through changing technologies and changing personal circumstances. Rather than smoothing out the dif...

Beyond Categories, Beyond Formats Art music has always resisted simple definition. In the early 2000s, the term still carried a faint museum-dust aura: experimental sound, gallery installations, mail art, the stubborn analogue fringe etc. It was—and in some circles still is—a space where musicians behave like artists and artists behave like musicians. This modus operandi may be an archaic view point but in many respects there is some validity - a gallery becoming a concert hall can't be a bad thing.  Art music is no longer a genre or a subculture—it is a method , a practice , and increasingly a system . It spans sound, image, code, performance, and networked collaboration. It is shaped by global distribution, political urgency, ecological awareness. The search for new boundaries and possibilities - the rise of AI tools that both expand and challenge what creativity means, looking forward to the possibility of what is around the corner. The core impulse remains the same: to ex...

Their Gods This track, available as a (pre‑release) free limited edition mix , 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. It’s the kind of record that feels less like a statement and more like a return: to streets you used to know, to rooms where a certain light still lingers, to the quiet turns of life that don’t announce themselves as important in the moment, yet keep echoing anyway. Forthcoming Album: Introducing This Window At its core, the collection gathers ideas and half‑finished projects that were never resolved, set down, and in some cases nearly forgotten across the decades. These are fragments without spectacle—never dramatic or life‑altering, but quietly significant. The songs move through photographs that held more than what was captured, walks that changed nothing on paper but shifted ...