Watching Dead Empires in Decay’, an album recorded under another of Kirby’s pseudonyms ‘The Stranger’ and released on Modern Love, a label that has been close to Kirby through these last eventful 15 years. It’s a dream album for the label: perhaps the most ambitious of Kirby’s career so far. It’s complex, singular, enigmatic, percussive, dark, and you just can’t work out how it was constructed.

Gone are the sampled 78’s of The Caretaker, but it also doesn't exactly sound electronic - you just can’t quite fathom how any of it was put together: Field Recordings? Found Sounds? Sheets of metal scraped and hammered? Drum machines re-wired? It’s stark and unsettling, haunted, even troubling - but often just beautiful.

The Stranger - Where Are Our Monsters Now, Where Are Our Friends ?

M.E. // Gary Numan // ~ Looped intro ~

leaving for now theohaber extended

glad to have had | untitled project 001 sessions | ambient atmospheric psyche drone horror WIP | shifty 4.1 rl 10 bpm take 1 81425

I use sound as a way to express my healing process, accept reality, and find beauty in life's unpredictability. In its raw and unfiltered form, sound serves as a powerful medium for conveying the complex emotions I experience while navigating life's chaos and uncertainty. By embracing disharmony and unexpected shifts in my music, I am not only accepting reality as it is, but also transforming it into something meaningful and intimate for me. This creates a space where vulnerability and acceptance coexist, allowing me to find love and beauty in the imperfect and even the disturbing.

Hide but seak

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shifty 103024 take 3 69 bpm

more song dump!! ive probably shown off some of these elsewhere but i might as well dump em here...

id say these are from 2020-2021~

Every Coin Has Two Sides

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ears 3 45 bpm take 1 22325

up in the air

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