Release date:
June 26, 2026
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[...] stunning - softly clanking, mournful, with traces of Kentucky post-rock. -The Guardian
He knew now that this was the only way with life. He knew now that fear and pleasure go together like the nut and the shell. - Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel (1929)
Five years after his debut Music For Video Stores (2020), Squama co-founder Martin Brugger is back on the label with his new album The Shell.
It’s an introspective record on which field recordings, noisy synths and lo-fi folk guitars yield contemplative emotions with a veiled dream-pop sensibility, the sparse instrumentation and an eerie atmosphere mirroring the quarrels of the inner self.
Tracklist:
- 1. Downward Curving
- 2. Knees, Hands, Shoulders, Teeth
- 3. Wounded Dove
- 4. The Brilliant Light Between The Ropes
- 5. Thick Of The Fray
- 6. I Can Really Stand A Good Deal
- 7. Souvenir From Flanders
- 8. White About The Gills
- 9. Malachite
- 10. Coasting Around
