[...] stunning - softly clanking, mournful, with traces of Kentucky post-rock. -The Guardian

Outstanding. - Electronic Sound


He knew now that this was the only way with life. He knew now that fear and pleasure go together like the nut and the shell. - Vicki Baum, Grand Hotel (1929)

Five years after his debut Music For Video Stores (2020), Squama co-founder Martin Brugger is back on the label with his new album The Shell.
It’s an introspective record on which field recordings, noisy synths and lo-fi folk guitars yield contemplative emotions with a veiled dream-pop sensibility, the sparse instrumentation and an eerie atmosphere mirroring the quarrels of the inner self.

TRACKLIST:

A1. Downward Curving

A2. Knees, Hands, Shoulders, Teeth

A3. Wounded Dove

A4. The Brilliant Light Between The Ropes

A5. Thick Of The Fray

B1. I Can Really Stand A Good Deal

B2. Souvenir From Flanders

B3. White About The Gills

B4. Malachite

B5. Coasting Around