Nadja – cut (Cruel Nature Records)

Label Description:

Four extended songs ranging from experimental and minimal acoustic to heavy industrial doom metal, with the addition of saxophone, French horn, harp, and multiple voices.

Double LP release by Midira Records available from:
midirarecords.com/release/md-156-nadja-cut/

CD available from Broken Spine Productions:
nadja.bandcamp.com/album/cut

Cover artwork by Jesse Narens.

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released October 24, 2025

Aidan Baker – guitars, drum machine, voice, saxophone
Leah Buckareff – bass, voice
Andy Aquarius – harp
Kartini Suharto-Martin – french horn
Tristen Bakker – voice
Oskar Bakker-Blair – voice
Lane Shi Otayonii – voice

The Colour Of Madness – Sundowning (Cruel Nature Recordings)

The Colour of Madness is Jacob Brant, a musician working in the post-ambient field. He has previously released work under his own name, alongside collaborations with other artists. Jacob lives in Margate, where he curates a series of experimental music events under the name Superliminal.

“Sundowning” is an exploration of the electric guitar within the post-ambient and post-noise landscapes. Recorded over a chaotic period in a mixture of studios, living rooms, and late-night liminal spaces across the UK and Europe, “Sundowning” is as much a document of time as it is a musical statement. Some pieces were meticulously crafted, whereas others originated as lo-fi mobile phone recordings of improvised sessions, later transformed through artful processing into post-ambient, electroacoustic compositions. The electric guitar is the primary source material, though it’s often rendered unrecognisable — submerged under textures, stretched into drones or fractured into shadowy melodic fragments. The album also features haunting vocals, field recordings and acoustic instruments, all woven into a layered tapestry of memory and emotion.