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Independent label based in North East England supporting artists world-wide. Purveyors of sonic diversity since 2013 https://linktr.ee/cruelnature

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The Spectral Light - YouTube From the album 'Obliteration' released by Cruel Nature Records 2025 https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/obliteration Videos by Amanda Votta

Here’s a playlist of videos for tracks from The Spectral Light β€œObliteration’. Enjoy!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

@immaterial-body.bsky.social

03.08.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Howl And Tell, by Thisquietarmy x otay:onii 5 track album

Featured on Zaph Mann's show - The Beat Goes On - inmemoryofjohnpeel.com/2025/08/02/t... Bladder Control by Thisquietarmy x otay:onii thisquietarmy "Howl And Tell" on Cruel Nature Records @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social 2025 cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/howl-a... @katuktuco.bsky.social

02.08.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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@africanpaper.bsky.social premiere the video for β€˜long nights’ by @melondruie.bsky.social

Watch here

africanpaper.com/2025/08/02/p...

02.08.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10p Jazz, by Volk Soup 9 track album

US Customers - save on shipping and order from Dipterid Records:
volksoup.bandcamp.com/album/10p-jazz

02.08.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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10p Jazz, by Volk Soup 9 track album

PRE-ORDER

Volk Soup β€˜10p Jazz’

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/10p-jazz

Wired, brassy, and unpredictable. Drawing from post-punk, noise rock, and free-jazz chaos.

Available on vinyl and cassette - including a discount bundle with the singles compilation 'Incompetent Hits Vol. 1'

02.08.2025 09:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Institute of Spectra-Sonic Sound 8.2.25 With: shaun robert, Emmanuel Mieville, BBJr, Paul Beaudoin & more. Share the show with friends and loved ones on social media. Send promos. Support independent artists and labels. CONTACT: superlaphon...

#soundart #musiqueconcrete #darkambient #noisemusic #fieldrecording @room40.bsky.social @elevatorbath.com @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @chitrarecords.bsky.social @krimkram.bsky.social @audiobulb.bsky.social @rdkpl.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonic...

02.08.2025 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In Heaven., by Hyacinth. 19 track album

It's Bandcamp Friday and my latest tape of vaporous pink fog beats came out today through @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/in-hea...

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01.08.2025 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Antidrome, by K Of Arc 10 track album

Last few cassettes available of ANTIDROME on @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

Jump in!

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/antidr...

01.08.2025 17:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Treated photo of the Hare Trail hare, commemorating Radio Mothership, on Deben Wharf, Woodbridge. Advertising the hour long Uptown Transmission on Felixstowe Radio. 8pm BST Saturday via felixstoweradio.org.uk with an hour of music from The Hologram People, Wet Tuna, Flaming Lips, Collins, orchid mantis, Fingerwolf, Agora Sci-Fi, Future Sound Of London, The Voice Of Saturn, Combover Beethoven, Yellow Belly, William Carlos Whitten & Diana Crash, Xingu Hill and Ween.

Treated photo of the Hare Trail hare, commemorating Radio Mothership, on Deben Wharf, Woodbridge. Advertising the hour long Uptown Transmission on Felixstowe Radio. 8pm BST Saturday via felixstoweradio.org.uk with an hour of music from The Hologram People, Wet Tuna, Flaming Lips, Collins, orchid mantis, Fingerwolf, Agora Sci-Fi, Future Sound Of London, The Voice Of Saturn, Combover Beethoven, Yellow Belly, William Carlos Whitten & Diana Crash, Xingu Hill and Ween.

Treated photo of the Hare Trail hare, commemorating Radio Mothership, on Deben Wharf, Woodbridge. Advertising the two hour long Uptown Transmission on Radio Mothership. 8pm BST Saturday via mothership.voyage with two hours of music from The Hologram People, Wet Tuna, Flaming Lips, Collins, orchid mantis, Fingerwolf, Agora Sci-Fi, Future Sound Of London, The Voice Of Saturn, Combover Beethoven, Yellow Belly, William Carlos Whitten & Diana Crash, Xingu Hill, Ween, Daiistar, CommsBreakdown, John Garner, Simon Heartfield, DERECHO Rhythm Section, Eulipion Corps, DUNZA, Azuhl, Laser Move Kill, phoneswithchords, Spray, Will Parker and Ben Lukas Boysen.

Treated photo of the Hare Trail hare, commemorating Radio Mothership, on Deben Wharf, Woodbridge. Advertising the two hour long Uptown Transmission on Radio Mothership. 8pm BST Saturday via mothership.voyage with two hours of music from The Hologram People, Wet Tuna, Flaming Lips, Collins, orchid mantis, Fingerwolf, Agora Sci-Fi, Future Sound Of London, The Voice Of Saturn, Combover Beethoven, Yellow Belly, William Carlos Whitten & Diana Crash, Xingu Hill, Ween, Daiistar, CommsBreakdown, John Garner, Simon Heartfield, DERECHO Rhythm Section, Eulipion Corps, DUNZA, Azuhl, Laser Move Kill, phoneswithchords, Spray, Will Parker and Ben Lukas Boysen.

Tomorrow's shows... @iheartnoise.bsky.social @woodfordhalse.bsky.social @subjangle.bsky.social @simonheartfield.bsky.social @moolakiiclubai.bsky.social @comboverbeethoven.bsky.social @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social @analoguetrash.com @spraypopmusic.com @difficultart.bsky.social

01.08.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Video Premiere | The Spectral Light – 'Branch'
This will destroy you – beautifully. . .
Taken from Obliteration released today via @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social
bit.ly/TSL_Branch

01.08.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vinyl sold out.
Cassette pre-order now available

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/headle...

Huge thanks for the support!

01.08.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Summer, by Beckton Alps2 5 track album

Buy the last remaining copy of Summer on @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social this bandcamp Friday!

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/summer

01.08.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hyacinth. β€˜In Heaven.’

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/in-hea...

β€œpink fog music” like wolfgang voigt's more vaporous output transformed into blissed out house inflected hip hop instrumentals

@hyacinthindecay.bsky.social

01.08.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dolores Mondo Stash β€œDirt Collected Reminiscences, Like Rivers Of Molasses”

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/dirt-c...

otherworldly synths and tape loops, nauseating rhythms and haunting glitch sounds from the Romanian artist

01.08.2025 08:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Spectral Light β€œObliteration”

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/oblite...

"The Spectral Light reaffirm their position as the quintessential doom folk demolitionists." @sun13music.bsky.social

@immaterial-body.bsky.social

01.08.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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melondruie β€˜Paths’
(6 copies left)

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/paths

Introspective ambient synth driven soundscapes inspired by the Pacific Northwest’s natural atmospherics

@melondruie.bsky.social

01.08.2025 07:49 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Nicholas Langley β€˜One Square Centimetre Of Light’

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/one-sq...

"One Square Centimetre Of Light is overtly serene and beguiling, but hints at an undisclosed turmoil beneath the surface, a work which is a sonic balm" (Aural Aggravation)

01.08.2025 07:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stefan Christoff β€˜Live Berlin / Amsterdam’

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

A set of live recordings drawing from a series of performances by Stefan Christoff in 2023, shaped by live experimentations and improvisations.

01.08.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Charlie Butler β€˜Full Beam’

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/full-b...

Raw instrumentals varying from sparse, dustbowl emo to smouldering improvised avant rock.

01.08.2025 07:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rippling Tapestries, by Soft Speaker 10 track album

One copy left of vinyl LP

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/rippli...

01.08.2025 07:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Soft Speaker β€˜Rippling Tapestries’

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/rippli...

Soft Speaker is a Chicago-based indie rock band, formed in mid-2000s by Paul Foreman (Salisman), known for their eclectic blend of psychedelic textures, fuzzed-out guitars, and baroque instrumentation.

01.08.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

2 copies left

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31.07.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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My new Nicholas Langley album is out tomorrow on @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

β€œOne Square Centimetre Of Light is overtly serene and beguiling, but hints at an undisclosed turmoil beneath the surface, a work which is a sonic balm, the result of a process to calm inner strife.” Aural Aggravation

31.07.2025 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Video Premiere: Deadman's Ghost - Chthonic Currents It’s been a little while since we last heard from Deadman’s Ghost - the boundary-dissolving project of Belfast sound artist Jason Mills - but his return is nothing short of spellbinding. Having releas...

Read what The Thin Air had to say about the album: thethinair.net/2025/07/vide...

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PRE-ORDER: Deadman’s Ghost β€˜A Votive Offering’

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/a-voti...

The DEADMAN’S GHOST β€œA Votive Offering” vinyl LP is now sold out. Big thanks to everyone who ordered a copy.

If you missed out, the cassette version is available to pre-order on our Bandcamp.

31.07.2025 11:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Dusted writer's mid-year lists. Tons of great albums already in 2025. mine below, mine + everyone's in the article

11.07.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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Headless Kross / Pound Land – Headless Kross / Pound Land Cruel Nature Records – 12th September 2025 Cruel Nature have a solid track record for putting out some storming releases by bands who you could reasonably describe as β€˜difficult’ but also β€˜cult’. T…

Another excellent review by Christopher Nosnibor for Aural Aggravation - thank you!

auralaggravation.com/2025/07/29/h...

30.07.2025 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wonderful! Thanks Simon

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The Spectral Light: Obliteration On their latest release, the Amanda Votta-led project reach the zenith.

"[T]he trio take folk music and drag it through barbed wire."

Album review: The Spectral Light's 'Obliteration' (ft. @immaterial-body.bsky.social) - out Friday via @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

Exclusive to S13, watch/ listen to the video for new track, 'Moonsinger'.

sun-13.com/2025/07/30/t...

30.07.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Summer, by Beckton Alps2 5 track album

One! Copy! Remaining!

cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/summer

@cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

29.07.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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