400 LONELY THINGS - 'Creature Comforts' + Why I Went To The Woods' - OUT 9th JAN 2026

400 Lonely Things present two beautiful, entwined releases - one, the soundtrack to a perceived isolated apocalypse filled with psychoactive melancholia and ugly lullabies, evoking an acute sense of horror, bewilderment and bereavement... and its twin, devouring hauntological dream worlds inspired by the fictional filmed landscapes of psychedelic folk and benignly sinister pagan nights in the wild forests...

"These albums are opposite sides of the same coin, which is why they are being released in tandem. The coin being, in this analogy, the 2024 National Election in the US and its place in the world's entropic trajectory, and my own emotions in the time since. Thematically different, they are both visceral reactions to these subsequent points in time in which they were made".

"CREATURE COMFORTS"

With the idea that this album would be lullabies for the end of a world, I started seeking out soothing vocal samples and hypnotic audio beds and simple melodies and set about roughing them up to form a soundtrack to my perceived isolated apocalypse. These songs would be ugly on the surface, sad and angry and defeated and more than a little unhinged but, like David's paintings, hopefully have a heart that would show through the scarring... [read the full story of the release here].

"WHY I WENT TO THE WOODS"

Inspired equally by both the fictional filmed landscapes of psychedelic folk - the bucolic British countryside of the 1960s and 1970s which, though I've never witnessed in real life, still fill me with an inexplicable melancholic yearning to return home - and the benignly sinister pagan nights of our young wild forests here in the States... Music that would be suitable for all woodland creatures and ethereal beings of the melancholy forest. [read the full story of the release here].

With a massive 2.5 hours of music over two discs each, these albums are available for purchase individually, or together as a bundle.

'CREATURE COMFORTS' 2CD £13 Adv	'WHY I WENT TO THE WOODS' 2CD - £13 Adv	'CREATURE COMFORTS' 2CD + 'WHY I WENT TO THE WOODS' 2CD BUNDLE - £23 Adv
2CD in glossy, flood-printed 8-panel digipak with paintings by David Irvine. Includes 12-page booklet.	2CD in matte-laminate, flood-printed 8-panel digipak with paintings by David Irvine.

COIL - 'Backwards' -OUT 23rd JAN 2026
2LP 'FIRE RED' + CD £35 Adv. | 2LP 'COLD WHITE' + CD £30 Adv. | 2LP BLACK + CD £28 Adv.

       

We mark a decade since we first released Coil's landmark album 'Backwards', with a special 10 year anniversary vinyl reissue. All editions come in a gatefold matt-laminate sleeve with silver detail.

ALL ORDERS DIRECT FROM THE COLD SPRING STORE / BANDCAMP INCLUDE: THE FIRST EVER RELEASE OF THE FULL 'BACKWARDS DEMOS' (10-track CD), POSTER AND ARTCARD.

After the ground-breaking release of 1990's "Love's Secret Domain" album, Coil were not dormant; the main project was "Backwards", which was started in 1992, updated considerably between 1993 and 1995, and transferred in 1996 to New Orleans, where it was finished in the magic of the Nothing studios of Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails). The album saw the fruition of Jhonn Balance's recent vocal coaching, producing haunting, passionate vocals, while reaching new heights.

23 years after its initiation, these tracks have been beautifully preserved by Danny Hyde and are finally available in highest quality audio. Differing substantially from the later, remixed incarnation, "The New Backwards" (2008), "Backwards" contains the original versions of Coil's much-loved tracks; 'A Cold Cell' and 'Fire Of The Mind', which have appeared on various compilations over the years, and are now presented as originally intended.

• 2LP 'FIRE RED' + CD + POSTER + ARTCARD - Ltd 300 (via Cold Spring only!)
• 2LP 'COLD WHITE' + CD + POSTER + ARTCARD - Ltd 500
• 2LP BLACK + CD + POSTER + ARTCARD

'FIRE RED' 2LP + CD - £35 Adv	'COLD WHITE' 2LP + CD - £30 Adv	BLACK 2LP + CD - £28 Adv

CHIMEHOURS - 'Underneath The Earth'
CD £11.50 / LP Black £20 | LP Ltd Earth Green £23 - OUT NOW!

          

"Underneath The Earth" is the debut album from Chimehours; a hauntological music project for the dislocated present day. Taking inspiration from Max Porter's novel "Lanny", the album digs into themes of nature, myth and community, with an edge of folk-horror.

Drones, drums and gritty guitars are juxtaposed with woodwind, strings and ethereal song. Written and produced between Derbyshire, London and Margate, the album takes musical influence from the likes of Liz Fraser, Broadcast, Beth Gibbons, Bibio and Jóhann Jóhannsson, and atmospheric cues from The Wickerman, The Fog, and Enys Men.

Chimehours is a collaboration between Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix. The pair have previously performed in bands together and composed music for award-winning film and television. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human.

Chimehours raid the vaults of 70's British cinema and trad folk soundscapes to riff on contemporary anxieties and ecological yearning. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human. The result is a collection of all things earthy, exquisite and grotesque.

FFO: Darkher, The Unthanks, Wardruna, Jóhann Jóhannsson...

• CD in matt-laminate digipak
• Ltd x 250 copies on 180g black vinyl
• Ltd x 250 copies on 180g Earth Green vinyl

EARTH GREEN LP	BLACK LP	CD

LLYN Y CWN - 'Megaliths In Dub'
CD £11.50. OUT NOW!

      

A deep reworking of Llyn Y Cwn's "Megaliths" (2024). The original was a profound dark ambient exploration of the sacred resonance embedded within stone circles; "Megaliths In Dub" is the echo beneath the surface, the unheard rhythm that has always been there.

The megaliths stand - timeless, unyielding. Their histories stretch beyond recorded memory, their presence imbued with silent narratives of the land. "Megaliths" sought to channel this ancient energy into pure sound. Yet no history exists without its counterpart - no creation without its shadow.

On "Megaliths In Dub", suppressed tempos emerge, pulsing with the primal force of forgotten rites. Guitar invocations from the live rituals weave through the fabric of the album, distorting and reshaping the familiar, exquisite dark ambient Llyn Y Cwn has become renowned for.

It is a sonic metamorphosis - a spectral reflection of the megalithic presence. The stones have been disturbed.

• Presented in a 6-panel digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist.

VARIOUS ARTISTS - 'Decoder'
CD £12 - OUT NOW!

     

Released on standalone CD for the first time in 33 years, this now-complete edition of the ground-breaking, legendary soundtrack is finally here.

A cult classic of sci-fi dystopia, "Decoder" (1984) saw EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's members working alongside GENESIS P-ORRIDGE (THROBBING GRISTLE / PSYCHIC TV) and WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS. It's one of the strangest (and most prescient) films of the decade. The film was made in Hamburg and Berlin, and directed by Klaus Maeck 'Muscha' (who directed several punk films).

The lead roles are played by Christiane F and FM Einheit from Neubauten, who also contributed to the film's score. Genesis P-Orridge, the kingpin of the English industrial scene, also appears as a priest of the Black Noise faith. Author William S. Burroughs portrays an insurrectionist salesman of audio equipment (and contributes spoken word to the soundtrack), and American cult actor Bill Rice plays a detective.

SOFT CELL contributed their classic 'Seedy Films', while MATT JOHNSON from THE THE wrote a frenetic, deformed song for the film that is both fantastic and painful to listen to, and EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN's 'Compressed Metal' is sublime. Dave Ball (SOFT CELL), Jon Caffery and Genesis P-Orridge composed the rest of the soundtrack.

A futuristic film, and a joyous application of William S. Burroughs' "The Electronic Revolution", which proposes a seditious and rather poetic method of subverting the masses and inciting them to rise up against the forces of order.

MUZAK IS MORE THAN MUSIC.

• CD in matt-laminate digipak with 10-page foldout booklet.

Track listing:

1. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Muzak For Frogs' (3:23)
2. The The 'Three Orange Kisses From Kazan' (4:30)
3. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Dream' (2:30)
4. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Main Theme (Showdown)' (3:04)
5. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Sex And The Married Frog' (3:24)
6. Soft Cell 'Seedy Films' (5:05)
7. FM Einheit 'Riots' (2:55)
8. Genesis P-Orridge 'Information (0:46)
9. FM Einheit / John Caffery / Alexander Von Borsig 'Muzak Decoding / Dream Machine / Pirates' (8:41)
10. Einstürzende Neubauten 'Compressed Metal' (2:25)
11. Genesis P-Orridge & Dave Ball 'Main Theme (Finale)' (3:42)

LUIGI TURRA / ELIO MARTUSCIELLO - 'Liminale' LP (Die Schachtel) - £23

On their debut collaboration, Luigi Turra and Elio Martusciello weave microscopic textures, fleeting vocalizations, and minimal instrumental gestures into a soundscape that explores the thresholds between memory, space, and perception. An aural bridge between two distinct generations of Italian experimental musicians, "Liminale", as its title eludes, is an exploration of the liminal through sonic means: "places that exist on the threshold, transitional spaces suspended between a before and an after, between the real and the evanescent" conceiving the soundscape as a liminal place. Slow-paced guitar tones and harmonics, delicately populated by tiny sounds, vocal utterances, intoxicating piano tones, metallic pulses, minimal vibrations, guitar harmonics, and deconstructed piano melodies, and drifting gauzy hazes create an imagistic and immersive landscape. Intimate, fragile, and achingly beautiful, "Liminale" is a masterstroke in soundcraft and composition, revealing the potency of meaning locked within transitional spaces and the undefined, and imbuing silence with monumental gravity and weight. Mastered for vinyl by Giuseppe Ielas. Ltd x 200 copies on 180g heavyweight vinyl, housed in a silkscreened cover and outer PVC sleeve, designed by Bruno Stucchi.

PANCRACE - 'Papotier' 2 x LP (Penultimate Press) - £26

Pancrace is an ensemble comprising French, British and Austrian performers, with a phenomenological approach that involves experiencing the limits of sound objects. Following "The Fluid Hammer", the ensemble return to church and repent, confronting a Silbermann 18th century baroque organ (famous for its "human voice" stop) with their custom made modular midi pipe organ: the "Organous". A papotier is a mask or to be very specific a grotesque face carved in wood, initially rigged to the lower part of the organ casing. After months of lockdown, having a papotier as an amulet was somewhat liberating, relearning how to breathe, listening to the human membrane, questioning the nature of air all within the confined space of a 14th century church. Essentially understanding what a mouth is to us to the point where, when all the pipes are blowing, they make a hell of a noise. Music for spatialized midi controlled pipe organ "Organous", Silbermann pipe organ (1778), voices, bird calls, baroque violin, rattles, ventilators, whistles, uilleann pipes, gaida, sheng, rhombus, pouet-pouet, Pi synth, Kastle synth and AM radio, presented in a gatefold sleeve.

SÁNDOR VÁLY - 'Prayer' LP (BlindBlindBlind) - £22

A beautifully deep and meditative choral / organ journey from Hungary's Sándor Vály, featuring Sheik Abdullah Al Zaili and Júlia Heéger. Egon Wellesz (1885-1974), the Austro-British musicologist, could well provide the motto for "Prayer". "Arabic music knows no concept of time. A single song or piece of music can last for hours. The listener is not actively involved in the performance, not concerned with the formal structure of the work, but is magically connected to the music, allowing it to take him or her away". The track 'O Vis Aeternitatis' was created with soprano Júlia Heéger, based on the responsory of the great western mystic Hildegard von Bingen, originally presented as a sound installation in the Church of St. Francis Trevi, Italy. The vocal tracks are transformed into a chorus with 10 second delays, doubling the layers at each round. The same doubling method was applied to 'Adhan', the Islamic call to prayer, which was performed by Sheikh Abdullah al Zaili, following the tradition of Arabic recitation. For both pieces, the result is a sustained sound mass, which could be interpreted as their essence. The two tracks (44min), which feature Vály on sampler, organ, and wind instruments, have now found their place on this limited edition record, merging like palms in one.

SERGIO ARMAROLI / DAVID TOOP - 'And I Entered Into Sleep' LP (Die Schachtel) - £23

David Toop is a pioneer in British experimental and improvised music: a sonic voyager who has continuously challenged the sources and materiality of sound through rigorously thoughtful performances, a vast catalogue of recordings, and a steady flow of highly influential texts. His first outing with Italy's radical composer, percussionist, vibraphonist, and multidisciplinary artist Sergio Armaroli has a sprawling sense of beauty and intimacy. Featuring Armaroli on vibraphone and prepared vibraphone and Toop on electronics, "And I Entered Into Sleep" is a sonic journey into the unconscious between electronic and acoustic sounds. The pair weave a striking interior world of immersive psychological depth. Feeling almost subaquatic at times, like captured glimpses of rumbling, shadowy ecosystems lost within murky ambiences, before washing ashore in a series of pointillistic, highly detailed alien landscapes of the mind, each artist's markedly different sound-sources, and treatment of the subsequent material elements, dance in abstract grace, incorporating subtle nods to minimalism, free jazz, and musique concrète within its seamless total form of sparse texture and tone. Ltd x 200 copies on 180g heavyweight vinyl, housed in a silkscreened cover and outer PVC sleeve, designed by Bruno Stucchi.

D-GENERATION MAGAZINE #1 - Magazine + CD (Ultra-Mail Prod.) - £26

COLLECTOR'S EDITION: Magazine with + 8x polaroid reproductions + 2x stickers.

Magazine with 96 page pages, A5 size (8.26 x 5.82 inches). Ltd x 400 copies, with 12-track CD.

Magazine table of Contents: Carl Abrahamsson "Genesis P-Orridge: A Studio Study", Lawrence Burton "This Industriall Thing of Ours", Dave Farmer "Workers ov Civilian Realizatio", Alice Genese "My Time in Psychic TV", Chris Low "Centro Iberico", Stephen Mallinder "Early Adventures in Electronica", Jack Sargent "Vale: The Industrial Culture Handbook", Chandra Shukla "Artist Profile", Nick Soulsby "Tea Break Time in the UK Underground", Kevin Thorne "We Be Echo: Bass Driven", Jordi Vallis "The Making of the PTV Video 'Catalan'", and Mike Honeycutt "Mystery Hearsay - in memoriam", plus: "Promo Art in the '80's".

CD track list: 1) The Apostles 'We Buy A Hammer For Daddy', 2) Cotton Ferox 'The Sun Of Man', 3) Val Denham 'You Only Hurt Yourself', 4) Val Denham 'Grey Rabbit', 5) Nanavesh 'Monomania', 6) Ov Stars 'Funeral Boots', 7) Rapoon 'Sentinal', 8) Retirement Community 'Friendship Is Magic', 9) Chandra Shukla 'A Teaching', 10) Tone Generator & Body Without Organ 'The Pain Of Eternal Existence', 11) We Be Echo 'Inside Life's Wire', and 12) We Be Echo 'Centro Iberico'.

MASONNA - 'Maso+Onna=Masonna' LP (Urashima) - £24

Japanese noise legend Masonna (Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre Nymphomanie Auréolé) is the brainchild of Maso Yamazaki, a name known for epitomising the extreme end of the noise spectrum. Originally released on cassette by the Coquette label in 1989, "maso+onna=masonna" is a landmark recording which has long been the subject of underground lore for its intense, almost mythical presence in the Japanese Noise world. Capturing Masonna at one of his most pivotal moments, the first side-length track delves into extreme distortion, vocal manipulations, and screeching feedback, with the ferocious intensity for which he is famed. The frantic bursts of static, relentless noise, screeches, and hallucinating screams jolt us unexpectedly into the (controlled?) chaos on the flipside. A demented broken guitar intro drags us into a chaotic noise onslaught, punctuated with fleeting stabs of near silence, exploding back into intense noise, demented screaming / wretching vocals and some of the most unhinged experiments ever put to vinyl. The extreme outer boundaries of 'music'. Ltd x 199 copies with textured A5 insert.

MAURIZIO BIANCHI - 'Regel' LP (Oblio / Die Schachtel) - £22

One of the great cornerstones of early 80's Italian experimentalism and Industrial music, fully-remastered for the first time. Comprising two, untitled, side-long compositions, "Regel" stands among the best illuminations of the tangible links between the early electronic avant-garde and certain music that blossomed from the cultural revolution of punk. The first piece draws upon manipulated sound sources, threaded with synthesizer or theremin, which collectively gather an almost post-apocalyptic sensibility. Using a similar sound palette, the album's second side delves toward a more markedly tonal realm, utilising deconstructed melodic elements, striking harmonic collisions and pulses, placed within a cavernous sense of space and texture that achieves thrilling seductiveness. "Regel" remains as fresh, engrossing, and exciting as the day it first appeared in 1982. Remastered by Andrea Marutti and issued in collaboration with the artist in a very limited edition of 280 copies on black vinyl, the album is housed in a sleeve that fully replicates the original, and contains two inserts and a sticker.

SPACE MACHINE (MASONNA) - 'Complete Space Tuning Box' 4 x CD Wooden Boxset (Urashima) - £45

Conceived as a vehicle to explore electronic synthesis around the turn of the new millennium, Space Machine is the analogue electronic cosmic sound project of Takushi "Maso" Yamazaki - Masonna. Combining elements of psychedelia, drone, and experimental music, Space Machine crafts a sonic tapestry with layers of space ring, hypnotic rhythms, and ethereal synthesizers, creating a rich and textured soundscape. A transcendent musical journey drawing on the artists deep and long-standing love of early electronic music from the '50s and '60s, utilising his collection of analogue synthesizers (EMS VSC3, Roland System 100 & 100M, PAIA 4700 Modular, Doepfer Modular) and vintage electronic equipment. The music of Space Machine has an otherworldly quality, evoking visions of distant galaxies and cosmic landscapes. It is an immersive and transformative journey that expands the boundaries of what is possible in music. Guests: Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), Nakaya Koichi (Nasca Car), Hasegawa Hiroshi (Astro, ex-C.C.C.C.). Between 2001-2005, Maso released three full lengths and four EPs, all the products of his daily, tripped out inner explorations of music at his Space Machine Systems Studio. "Complete Space Tuning Box" gathers all these works, the project's debut "Cosmos From Diode Ladder Filter", the beautiful albums "2" and "3", and the entirety of those EPs. Ltd x 300 copies in a wooden box with three 7" inserts, a square pin badge and the four CDs that include the complete discography.

CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA - 'Serenade' LP (Elevator Bath) - £20

The first solo vinyl LP from Concepción Huerta (Huerta Ensamble), an artist from Mexico who employs tapes to manipulate recordings of everyday objects and electronic instruments. The fruit of these experimental methods is an intense, heavy take on dark ambient and noise music; a densely atmospheric exploration of sound driven by narrative. "The Earth Has Memory" was recorded while in residence at Elektronmusikstudion (EMS), Stockholm and fine tuned at UNAM with Olivia Block. Instruments used were primarily the Buchla and the Nord, which were then processed via magnetic tape, lending a tactile, organic quality to the work - appropriate as the album tells of a descent to the centre of the earth. Abstract resonances, high-pitched tones, low frequencies, with lurching drones replicate geological movements larger than humanity. "Just via synths and tape treatments, she conjures the depth of the ocean, the solidity of the earth, and the remnants of the Big Bang" (Brainwashed). Mastered by James Plotkin. Ltd x 200 copies in a reverseboard sleeve with spot-varnish print. Includes insert and download code.

P.T.A.O. / SEDEM MINÚT STRACHU - 'Let's Twist With...' MCD (Abhorrent Creation Tapes) - £10

Czech Noisecore legends P.T.A.O. (Pár Tecek A Otazník... or "...?") have been destroying speakers and giving people headaches since the 90s. Here, they pair up for a second time with Sedem Minút Strachu, contenders for the new noisiest band in Europe, delivering hundreds of tuneless grind / noisecore tracks, probably, in less than 11 minutes. Sometimes structured, but always free of melody, you can expect nothing less (or more) than pulverizing noisecore insanity. P.T.A.O.'s releases are pretty sporadic, bizarre and sought after, so get on this. Ltd x 500 copies.

MAGIC OHM - 'The Sukajan' LP (ADN) - £18

This work has been created by Jerome Genin (alias Magic Aum Gigi alias Diza Star). The music goes back to the golden Krautrock years and is dedicated to early Popol Vuh and Faust. The record thus shows two complementary sides, conceptually and musically different. The first side, called Attraction side, is fully electronic, thematically "attractive", with a subversive magnetisation. The first track includes an unpredictable variation on the Faust song 'J'ai mal aux dents'. The second track of this side can be seen as a kind of bridge between the two other tracks; somewhere in the same way as in his legendary album "Inventions For Electric Guitar", Manuel Göttsching placed in the middle the track 'Quasarsphere' (which also sounds totally different than the two others). This short track was not conceived with Göttsching in mind but with Richard H. Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire. The second side, called Bell side, is undoubtedly the result of a strange mechanical and symbiotic alchemy with a long improvisation of 20 minutes of a celestial nature coming from a Popol Vuh sample, which is also a tribute to Florian Fricke. In the end, a contemplative, dualistic album, originated from the emanations of Krautrock, experimental music, and the cosmic underground. Ltd x 300 copies.