PEOPLE SKILLS - SEVERAL YEARS LATER LP
"There are peoplewho stumble into sound the way certain rivers find the sea, PeopleSkillsbelongs to that happy camp of bedroom dreamers. Since the mid 2000s he's been pulling repetitive guitar figures, idle tape phenomena, sound residue and deep buried vocals into forms that feel hallucinated rather than composed. His Heresy Museum locale the ship by which these vexed transmissions sail. Sunken, yet somehow floating, paced with the tide, surprising, and sitting just outside both the listener and it seems the artist himself. For years, his late father's untrained photography has completed the fractured scene, pulling two parallel streams of private evidence toward the same unknown, and this document sticks to the same shadowy form.
Nine pieces, no unnecessary movement. The trademark Discreet's "beauty and grit" sit side by side throughout. The opening eleven minute epic, "Four Curling Corners of Your Soul", gently kicks this door open with the sound of an approaching storm trapped inside a ballad. What follows, beyond a reportedly "tart nod at Bataille on Lascaux”, is a guitar album like a refrigerator cycling through signals from a distant shortwave station. Lost instruments circling themselves without urgency. Voices drift in and out, in and out. Rooms of the cave open into other rooms that open into other rooms... Before long, the distinction between the foreground and the myth of its imagery stops mattering entirely. Anyone still talking about "lo-fi aesthetics" in 2026 can safely be ignored. This music concertedly sits outside category. It moves nearby a strain of homemade music that values intuition over intention, happy accidents over polish and patient repetition over hurried destination, and Aaens belongs to that world, but he seems to have arrived there without consulting the guidebook or the tired committees forever gesturing at its containment."
- J.T.D. Cusamano
Photographs from the Alfred P. Sebastian Archives 1969 - 1995
The Sculptor written and recorded 2016, the rest performed and recorded by Jesse Dewlow in winter 2024 - 2025 in Philadelphia, PA
Mixed, compiled and completed by Samael B. Aaens summer 2026 in Vilnius, LT
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug
Discreet Music 35, 2026
Edition of 300 copies
FUTURE CHEMICALS - DEATH DRUG AND TV SCREEN CD
Started out as a sideproject to Incipientium and The Family Men, Gustav Danielsbackas' FutureChemicalshas slowly evolved into its own ugly thing, exploring his passion for video culture and dystopian, technological havoc. Death Drug And TV Screen was initially meant as a soundtrack for a film started in 2022 that got forever stuck in limbo. Saved from the production room vortex, Discreet Music now presents the whole, massive thing in its mind-melting entirety. Clocking in on almost 70 ambitious minutes, the album is an epic journey into a violent but strangely beautiful post-everything wasteland. Malfunctioning electronics meets odd chopped and screwed techqniues meets lush ambient. Sudden bursts of noise and voices from beyond. One of the most eccentric and bizarre entries so far in the Discreet Music catalog from one of the most creative and talented Gothenburg-artists we had the pleasure to work with.
FFO Royal Sperm, Dennis Duck Goes Disco, Muscleworks Inc, Chocolate Monk, Troma, Bananafish.
Mastered by Vidar Nilsson at Welfare Sounds, Jewelcase with a 8-page booklet.
DMCD08, 2026
Edition of 300 copies
TIMOTEO CARBONE HANSSON - GWETHILU: SONGS FOR THE DARK LAKE LP
Gwethilu: Songs for the Dark Lake, the debut album by Gothenburg-based musician and composer Timoteo Carbone Hansson, invites listeners into an alternative sound world where experimental music, early medieval polyphony, and traditional Nordic roots collide.
Pushing the boundaries of musical form and harmony, the album offers a meditative yet imaginative experience punctuated by lavish rhythmic modulations. To bring this haunting landscape to life, Carbone Hansson utilizes a diverse array of modern and traditional instruments, each specially crafted and custom-tuned by the artist for this project.
Recorded in 2024-2025. Mastered for vinyl by Lasse Marhaug. Cover artwork by Gemma Hansson Carbone. Edition of 300 copies, comes with a 8-page Gwethilu: Songs For The Dark Lake compendium.
Discreet Music 34, 2026
Edition of 300 copies
SHADOW PATTERN - LIVE AT SOMEWHERE LP
"I call it ‘the Shadow Pattern Vignette’. A fragmentary and pleasingly non-discriminatory exercise in audio capture which, when sequenced, compiled or arranged alongside other such vignettes, leads to the finished work of Nate Ivanco’s Shadow Pattern. You can reach into the hermetic depths of his Hamilton Tapes micro label, recent transatlantic appearances via Infant Tree, Chocolate Monk or adhuman, or indeed, this new LP ‘Live at Somewhere’ and find the Shadow Pattern Vignette. Forever in evidence as the clear constituent part from which the whole is always produced.
Such a method is easily described by the oft-applied generalism ‘sound collage’, however, there is rawness; a purity, an essence to Ivanco’s intuitive vocabulary that situates his material beyond what that term evokes for me. Instead, I sense an internal logic to the Shadow Pattern Vignette that operates within an almost conventional tradition of bedroom music-making; saturated with ‘hit record and play’ homespun liveness that endures whatever the final form of the resulting session. No surprise then that ‘Live at Somewhere’ was birthed from studio renditions of material either performed in real time or developed for live performance, with significant quantities of their 12-inch real estate committed to the long-form fleshing out of tonally inclined instrument-based pieces.
Side A’s workout for poorly dubbed guitar and pipe lurches from modes of fluttering mulch and coughing electronic intervention to freer states of pure playback; settling into a lulling wash of harmonics, hiss and scrape. Likewise, Side B’s sniffin’, gruntin’, fourth-wall-shatterin’ take on the pianoforte spends ample minutes letting the tinkling ivories speak for themselves. By the time the sound of moaning ferric via strained capstans and quivering belts makes its reappearance, the listener is struck by how finely its timbres mesh with an auditory context equally prizing the rattle of frame or squeak of stool amidst the hammering of notes and chords. Both pieces are rich with detail and unpredictable turns of event, yet the atmosphere of the work taken in its entirety is where the music feels familiar and trademark to the project.
Does ‘Live at Somewhere’ push the inherent musicality of Ivanco’s language further to the fore? Or is such evolution baked into the Shadow Pattern Vignette? Perhaps this is the sound of Nate rising to the occasion of his first outing on mass-produced wax via Discreet – a label known for its championing of the murky AND melodic? Is any of this true for Nate or just my pontificating ass fulfilling a writing brief? I’m several listens in and all I know for sure is that I love this record and keep wanting to hear it again. In summary: inherently playable DIY home taping FFO: Spoils & Relics, Graham Lambkin’s ‘Aphorisms’, ’00s Midwestern basements, Afvikling Kassetter, Guinness." - Duncan Harrison, Jan 2026
Discreet Music 33, 2026
Edition of 300 copies
BLOD - FÖRLORARNAS NATT CD
New 12-track Blod album recorded spring 2025, and the first one since Livets Ord from 2018 to be recorded entirely in a studio, this time at Omnivox Studio in Borlänge. Förlorarnas Natt is an all instrumental album and Gustafs intention was to make a soundtrack-style album with a strong cinematic feel. Even though there is no existing movie, yet, the story takes you through a Friday night in the life of a young person and the first meetings with the adult world. Naïve hopefulness, sore feelings and the final betrayals and broken promises from the adults. Musical inspirations on Förlorarnas Natt has been Italian stuff like Patty Bravo and Pieo Umiliani but also, like always, Swedish composers like Björn Isfält and Benny Andersson.
All music and instruments performed by Gustaf Dicksson, except the drums which Ola Höglund plays. Ola has also recorded and mixed the album. Mastered by Lasse Marhaug. Jewelcase with 8-page booklet.
DMCD07, 2026
Edition of 300 copies
ROY MONTGOMERY - GUITARS INFERNAL LP
Roy Montgomery was born in London, England but lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. Roy is essentially a home recording artist who makes compositions on six-string electric guitar some of which have vocals added. Across several decades he has released several self-produced 45s, LPs and CDs on various independent labels including Drunken Fish, Kranky, vhf, Grapefruit and, most recently, Discreet Records, who released Broken Heart Surgery in 2024. He was involved in bands such as the Pin Group (whose debut single was the first to be released on iconic New Zealand indie label Flying Nun in 1981), Dadamah, Dissolve and Hash Jar Tempo (with Bardo Pond) and he has collaborated with other artists such as Flying Saucer Attack, Liz Harris (Grouper), Julianna Barwick, Purple Pilgrims, Emma Johnston, Haley Fohr (Circuit des Yeux), Alicia Merz (Birds of Passage) and Martha Skye Murphy. Roy very rarely gives live performances. The material on Guitars Infernal was recorded in 2016 during a great deal of turbulence in Roy’s home life and is being released in 2026 because, while wholly instrumental, it “speaks” to extremely turbulent times in the world at large.
Discreet Music 32, 2026
Edition of 500 copies
OUT OF PRINT
CARRIE DECUNZO MIRANDE - MY SHADOW LP
Discreet Music encountered Philadelphia-based Carrie Decunzo Mirande for the first time in 2024 when she performed at Longest Night in Gothenburg alongside Arv & Miljö and Christian Mirande. A computer musician, pianist, vocalist and video and installation artist, her work deals with social and ecological ethics, and she incorporates visual language and theater into her compositional and performance practice. On the beautiful and strangely evocative 11-song album My Shadow, Carrie weaves together sound poetry with digital synthesis, harmonizing vocals and field recordings, the result being one of the brightest shining debut albums we heard in quite a while. My Shadow follows up releases on labels like No Rent and Hold.
"I was prompted to read the twenty-four chapters of the Book of Luke in the twenty-four days before Christmas of 2024. I tried to write music about it but struggled. I wrote two songs for piano inspired by Luke 6:45, what overflows from the heart comes out the mouth, and Luke 1:22, in which Zechariah is made mute as punishment for his disbelief in the word of God made known to him by the angel Gabriel. I was unsatisfied with these pieces and set them aside. My heart knew intimately what the music should say, but what came out of me was flat, useless, and wrong.
My Shadow is my first full length LP and it deals with this frustration, of articulative failure, loss of voice, lack of trust in ones convictions, in feeling powerless in the face of scales of violence which are difficult to comprehend. It offers hope, grief, resignation, desperate bargaining with self and God. Lose the thread trying to say what’s unspeakable, find grace sealing yourself in what’s unknowable."- Carrie
Discreet Music 31, 2026
Edition of 300 copies
OUT OF PRINT
