Cassette / Tape + sheet music

STRDSN037

Elbe

Eight instrumental solo-piano pieces recorded on an old Knauss piano: close, unvarnished performances centred on the resonance of the instrument.

Solo piano · Instrumental · Ambient piano

Cassette

Lightculture

Harsh noise and power electronics with an explicitly political framing.

Harsh noise · Power electronics · Political noise

CD

STRDSN039

True Sound

Experimental / Indie

For fans of: Mount Eerie · Sparklehorse

12″ LP

STRDSN038

Instrumentalmusik Vom Ende Der Welt

Instrumental soundscapes moving between ambient, drone and noise, using field recordings and an eclectic range of acoustic and everyday sound sources.

Ambient · Drone · Noise · Field recordings

Cassette

STRDSN034

Abyssos

German-language crust and D-beat hardcore, combining melodic guitar leads and driving rhythms with slower doom/sludge passages.

D-beat · Crust · Hardcore · Doom / sludge

For fans of: Alpinist · Trainwreck · Jungbluth

12″ LP

STRDSN036

Allein / Verbunden

Quiet piano-led songs expanded with synthesizer, organ, glockenspiel and drum-machine textures; intimate German vocals connect neo-classical colour with indie pop.

Piano songwriting · Neo-classical · Indie pop · Electronic arrangements

CD / 12″ LP

STRDSN035

Samsara

For fans of: Mount Eerie · Sparklehorse

12″ LP

STRDSN033

Taïfun / Holden Goldmund

12″ EP · one-sided

STRDSN028

Modernes Deutschland

Experimental / New wave

7″

STRDSN030

Gimbal Lock / Pitch/Roll/Yaw

Emo / Emotive hardcore / Experimental

For fans of: Fugazi · These Arms Are Snakes

10″

STRDSN017

AttackRobotAttack | Break Character

Two contrasting Dutch post-hardcore approaches: AttackRobotAttack’s noisy, grooving screamo intensity meets Break Character’s riff-led Revolution Summer feel.

Post-hardcore · Noise rock · Screamo · Revolution Summer

For fans of: Shotmaker

Cassette

STRDSN027

Urlaub Im Wahnsinn

Compact piano-led songs with German-language vocals, personal reflection and a restless view of the world outside.

Piano songwriting · Singer-songwriter · German-language

12″ LP

STRDSN026

Provin[ien]z

Slow ambient/drone pieces with oscillating echo, distant guitar lines, fragile analogue-synth melodies and layered environmental sound.

Ambient · Drone · Echo textures · Hauntological atmosphere

7″

STRDSN025

Duct Hearts / Laube

Experimental / Post-hardcore / Post-rock

For fans of: Elliott · The Appleseed Cast

7″

STRDSN023

The Daydream Fit Dotlights Lorraine Duct Hearts

Ambient / Drone / Emo

For fans of: Elliott · The Appleseed Cast

7″

STRDSN024

If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?

Emo / Experimental

For fans of: Elliott · The Appleseed Cast

7″ / CD

STRDSN019

Make Me Forget

Guitar-driven emo and noise rock from Enschede, with bass, drums, sung vocals and spoken-word passages.

90s emo · Noise rock · Post-punk · Shoegaze

For fans of: METZ · Japandroids (artist comparison from the earlier 2013 release)

12″ LP

STRDSN010

In Closing Memories

For fans of: The Van Pelt · Native Nod · Kerosene454

12″ LP

STRDSN021

Kuraĝo

Urgent German-language emo and screamo from Hamburg, rooted in guitar-led punk and post-hardcore.

Emo · Screamo · Post-hardcore

Cassette

STRDSN012

Kælir Varðhund

Experimental

For fans of: Labradford · Tarentel · Sigur Rós

12″ LP

STRDSN014

Aufbruch Im Fall

Melancholic piano-led songwriting with German-language vocals, moving from concise songs into an extended final composition.

Piano songwriting · Singer-songwriter · German-language

CD

STRDSN015

Places I'll Eat, People I'll Meet

Orchestrated chamber pop, setting voice, guitars and piano among a large acoustic ensemble of strings, woodwind and brass.

Chamber pop · Orchestral pop · Songwriting

12″ LP

STRDSN003

Gegen Die Schwerkraft

Emotional 1990s-style hardcore with melancholy, intertwining guitars, spoken and screamed vocals, and shifts from quiet passages into frantic outbursts.

90s emo · Emotional hardcore · Screamo

For fans of: Still Life · Indian Summer · Human Hands

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STRDSN026.5

Split

Cassette

STRDSN022

Split

Experimental / Folk

10″

STRDSN013

My Heart In Your Hand - 5-Way Split

Experimental

For fans of: Elliott · The Appleseed Cast

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She Has A Sore, Sore Throat

Four brief bedroom-recorded electronic pieces, built around distorted synth fragments, echo and an abrasive tape-noise atmosphere.

Synth noise · Drone · Power electronics · Bedroom electronics

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STRDSN008

A Split Cassette Tape

Hand-played, distorted synth fragments and four-track tape noise meet Dotlights slower, ten-minute guitar/drum/synth excursion into post-rock and drone.

Synth noise · Post-rock · Drone · Tape texture

12″ EPSold Out

STRDSN007

Undici​/​Dodici

Emo / Experimental / Post-hardcore

For fans of: Raein · Rainmaker

2 × CDSold Out

2008-2012: Töne In Wechselnder Reihenfolge

Early piano-led songs and short tape-recording interludes, collecting material from 2008–2012 with personal and socially reflective lyrics.

Piano songwriting · Early recordings · Singer-songwriter

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