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We added the 10 remaining copies of the Shredded Nerve art box to our Bandcamp. Won’t be sold anywhere else online

Merzbow & Vanity Productions box is sold out

Please follow the link in bio

Thank you by @penlight_publications

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Out today!

Joachim Nordwall has been a tireless force in experimental music for the past three decades. As a composer and musician, as the boss of Ideal Recordings, as curator and organizer, as a fan and enthusiast. A remarkable example of dedication to an almost impregnable cause.

On “PSYCHIC AREA” Nordwall offers four long compositions of electronic drone majesty and postindustrial elegance. Monumental and monolithic, yet also delicate and ingenious. A lavish return to the depths of the hum.

Bandcamp and streaming by @penlight_publications

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OUT TODAY

Shredded Nerve: “Change of Heart”

Justin Lakes’ Shredded Nerve project has long held a vital place in New York’s noise underground. Known for work that extends beyond static assault and mere restatement of industrial music’s past, on “Change of Heart”, that breadth comes nto sharper focus.

Built by combining tape manipulation and synthesizer work, the album sets electroacoustic abrasion against chromatic drones and howling feedback. Within this autobiographical frame, though, the industrial blues suggested by its rusted timbres ultimately bend the dissonance toward romantic swells. “Change of Heart” transforms noise’s familiar vocabulary of resonance and decay into one of intimacy, where dissonance functions less as rupture and more as the condition through which emotional will becomes communicable.

Digital and art edition by @penlight_publications

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Merzbow & Vanity Productions “The New Peasantry”

Masami Akita’s relentless output as Merzbow has made him a broad touchstone for experimental musicians and artists treating sound as material with a capital ‘M’. Though the persistence of the harsh noise frame that surrounds him is unquestionably deserved, there’s a percussive through line from his earliest recordings that frames him just as well.
Vanity Productions and his existentialist touch and blurry sensibility have become a crucial part of the contemporary Nordic electronic and experimental music scenes in the past decade. Stadsgaard paints sonic canvases of modern day melancholia oscillating between electronic experimentation, noise exploration and elevated melodic elaboration, directing tender forces with an assertive and impulsive streak.

“The New Peasantry” - the unification of the two projects, goes some way towards foregrounding this. The album is built around piano manipulation, both physical, in the sense of a prepared piano, and digital, through digital signal processing. The piano runs a gauntlet from Conlon Nancarrow to the Clicks and Cuts series. The cumulative effect however, points toward a dystopian avant-garde sensibility, not noise per se. The title leads us here by way of social commentary, evoking the harrowing techno-feudal reality that our IT department overlords have conjured. The gulf between the piano’s almost machinic interventions and the remote emotional horizon of the accompaniment mirrors the divide the title suggests, placing The New Peasantry in the orbit of noise’s longstanding fascination with atrocity while insisting that its horrors belong not to history but the present

Digital and art edition by @penlight_publications

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Shredded Nerve will play a show tonight in NYC celebrating the new album “Change of Heart”

Stacked lineup

The art box will be available at the show by @penlight_publications

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The art boxes for Merzbow & Vanity Productions and Shredded Nerve are being crafted by hand at Cult Pump Studio in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Each box features silkscreened covers paired with an individual analog photograph — no two alike. Limited, numbered editions.

The boxes will be released Friday, September 4th by @penlight_publications

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We are proud to premiere “Whirlwind” by Shredded Nerve from the upcoming album “Change of Heart” - out on Penlight Publications on September 4th.

Justin Lakes’ Shredded Nerve project has long held a vital place in New York’s noise underground. Known for work that extends beyond static assault and mere restatement of industrial music’s past, on “Change of Heart”, that breadth comes into sharper focus.

Built by combining tape manipulation and synthesizer work, the album sets electroacoustic abrasion against chromatic drones and howling feedback. Within this autobiographical frame, though, the industrial blues suggested by its rusted timbres ultimately bend the dissonance toward romantic swells. “Change of Heart” transforms noise’s familiar vocabulary of resonance and decay into one of intimacy, where dissonance functions less as rupture and more as the condition through which emotional will becomes communicable.

“Change of Heart” will be released digitally and as a limited handmade art edition/ cassette.

Listen to “Whirlwind” via the link in story. by @penlight_publications

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“The New Peasantry” - a new album by @merzbowofficial and @stadsgaard - featured over at @resident_advisor. The description is on point too. by @penlight_publications

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We are proud to announce “The New Peasantry”, the new collaborative album by Merzbow and Vanity Productions. The album will be out on the 4th of September via @penlight_publications

Masami Akita’s relentless output as Merzbow has made him a broad touchstone for experimental musicians and artists treating sound as material with a capital ‘M’. Though the persistence of the harsh noise frame that surrounds him is unquestionably deserved, there’s a percussive through line from his earliest recordings that frames him just as well.
Vanity Productions and his existentialist touch and blurry sensibility have become a crucial part of the contemporary Nordic electronic and experimental music scenes in the past decade. Stadsgaard paints sonic canvases of modern day melancholia oscillating between electronic experimentation, noise exploration and elevated melodic elaboration, directing tender forces with an assertive and impulsive streak

“The New Peasantry”- the unification of the two projects, goes some way towards foregrounding this. The album is built around piano manipulation, both physical, in the sense of a prepared piano, and digital, through digital signal processing. The piano runs a gauntlet from Conlon Nancarrow to the Clicks and Cuts series. The cumulative effect however, points toward a dystopian avant-garde sensibility, not noise per se. The title leads us here by way of social commentary, evoking the harrowing techno-feudal reality that our IT department overlords have conjured. The gulf between the piano’s almost machinic interventions and the remote emotional horizon of the accompaniment mirrors the divide the title suggests, placing “The New Peasantry” in the orbit of noise’s longstanding fascination with atrocity while insisting that its horrors belong not to history but the present

“The New Peasantry” will be released digitally and as a limited handmade art edition/ cassette

Listen to an snippet via the link in story

Picture by @khaffgaard by @penlight_publications

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Pictures from the very first Penlight showcase last week — Copenhagen, 2026
Vanity Productions / Ana Fosca / Jim Haynes

Shot by Joanna Filipowska by @penlight_publications

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Penlight Publications are proud to present “Inopportune”, the new EP by Jim Haynes

Honestly; we are beyond exhilarated to welcome the American experimental music impresario and noise connoisseur Jim Haynes to the Penlight family. Across two compositions, Haynes weaves drone elegance with industrial trickery, shortwave flicker, and dense textural abundance. A master of his craft and a true visionary in our tiny field of music

Penlight Publications 009

Streaming and Bandcamp by @penlight_publications

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Penlight Publication presents “L’Essenziale” by Hålbå

After 6 years of silence Hålba, the Genoese synthesizer devotee and sound sculptor comes back with “L’Essenziale” on Penlight Publications. Drawing inspiration both from the great Italian soundtrack tradition and early industrial minimalism, he creates a intimate suite of dedication and inner struggle unfolding over the course of two noble compositions

All music by Alessio Barbuzza
Mastered by Alessio Barbuzza
Photograph by Christian Stadsgaard

Penlight Publications 008 by @penlight_publications

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