**Edition of 200 housed in silk screened jackets, white vinyl** On New Lost Knowns, Twig Harper—a central figure in the American noise underground and co-founder of Nautical Almanac—delivers a kaleidoscopic LP that blurs the boundaries between noise, tape music, and electronic abstraction. Known for his work with Wolf Eyes, Aaron Dilloway, and the Baltimore experimental scene, Harper’s solo work is a dense, immersive experience.

This album is a barrage of fractured electronics, warped tape loops, and surreal sonic events. Each side unfolds as a suite of unpredictable transitions, where moments of harshness give way to hypnotic pulses and psychedelic textures. For fans of American noise, sound art, and the legacy of John Wiese and Prurient, New Lost Knowns is a vital document—both challenging and deeply rewarding. One of our favourite labels, Planam, pulls out a real time-and-space bender from James Twig Harper, who's perhaps best known for his collaborations with Nate Young in Nautical Almanac and alongside Daniel Higgs for Thrill Jockey. Theres some genuine weirdness within, some of the strangest we've heard since Planam first gave birth to Pat Murano's Decimus series, but with a distinctly unique fidelity and gyroscopic dynamic that makes for a deliciously disorienting experience all of its own conception. There's an animalistic or perhaps even plant-like bio-logic to its devolved, dubbed-out arcana, a grunting, scraping, grubbing ecological complexity of sounds that grows, twists and bifurcates at seemingly haphazard junctions to catalyse chain reactions of constant change and multiple layers of surreality. The 2nd side in particular enters passages which sound almost like a primitive take on Florian Hecker's plonging, rubbery computer music or Rashad Becker's perplexing notional folk music.