The Last Sound

@thelastsound.com

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Making various music since 1992, sadly thelastsound.com // whirlinghallofknives.com // uous.link // trensmat.bandcamp.com // nuterecords.bandcamp.com

Henry with his baby in the film Eraserhead
Tinned Meats - Kilter record playing track 1, 'Square/One'
The Nomen Luni screen in Jet Set Willy, an old 8-bit game for old people
Looping animation of multicoloured cassette tapes falling over, domino style
The Drift is the thirteenth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Scott Walker, released on 8 May 2006 on 4AD
A dark figure in the Munch room, in the old Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo
Men in Bed live, by Cardiacs
Bandcamp artist page for The Last Sound
Cardiacs t-shirt from 2006 London show
Laughter fills the air Until they're no longer there Connected souls aligning Defiant You can wipe out But you can't But you can't erase Slaughter We won't care Until they're no longer there Connected homes, but distant Divided You can tune out But you can't But you can't erase Erase Erase Laughter filled the air But they are no longer there Past and etched in time It's decided We wrote it out And we can't And we can't erase
Preview image of the Scrawled album by UOUS, showing the vinyl record partially inserted into sleeve
A lazarus soul performing in St Patrick's cathedral, Dublin
16 covers for various releases from the named artists arranged into a 4x4 grid
Cassette and inlay against yellow background. Lots of colour. Perhaps too much.
This is the sound of candy filled sugar pop, the kind that you might see on Top Of The Pops in the glory madness days of the 80s when Strawberry Switchblade seductively swooned from your transistor radio and pop could be both wonky and bliss like and whisper sweet nothings into your ear like an ethereal Green Gartside. All That’s Missed is an album that really is not to be missed. It’s yet another off-kilter pop wonder released by Cruel Nature Records, a label that certainly specialises in releasing off-kilter pop and or just plainly the off-kilter.
Tapes and inlay cards
Screenshot of bandcamp digital discography offer
If you like your apocalypse with a side of psychedelic dream pop then look no further than this latest dispatch from Whirling Hall Of Knives’ Barry Murphy, aka The Last Sound. Chasing his excellent 2024 anthology, Veered, the 10 tracks on All That’s Missed confront modern life’s myriad anxieties – the scourge of division, merciless uncertainty, rampant corruption, corporate vampirism, you know the stuff – and seek out reasons to be dazzled and grateful in spite of it all. Redlining drum machines, effect-burnt vocals and scorched synthesisers emit technicolour sparks and neon-tinted smoke as they blaze through passages of ecstatic kosmische and post-noise hypnagogia, searching for bliss amidst the dread.
Gary Numan Telekon tour lighting, Red lights at 90 degrees mimicking the album cover
4 cassettes arranged showing front, spine, and tape itself of the All That's Missed album by The Last Sound
A long line of Ford trucks on a country road
Album cover featuring face in profile under highly colourised patterns with artist, album and track titles incorporated into the design
Flashing psychedelic imagery
UOUS - Abort (short clip with flashing imagery)
Distorted photo of the band UOUS
Ad for new Cardiacs single Woodeneye, out Aug 1st
Tommy Wiseau and his buddy Greg on a rooftop
Page 6 of the June/July issue of The Goo magazine featuring Dan Hegarty's music column
Wu tang logo
Screenshot of digital discography panel on thelastsound.bandcamp.com
Screenshot from archive.org of the thisisopenmusic.com homepage, a net label that was based in Brighton
Dj Box in the wonderful Anseo bar, Dublin
Cover images of releases on Bandcamp artist page
Andrew Weatherall djing in Köln
Human skull beside larger skull of the missing link creature from the movie The Creeping Flesh
Mark E Smith from The Fall guesting with Monks for their song Higgle-dy Piggle-dy
Beak> onstage in Dublin
7 inch vinyl record and record sleeve with artwork showing blurred and distorted picture of two children beside sunlit window
Photo from the audience perspective with band on stage to the right and a mysterious large puppet type character wearing shades towering over the crowd to the left
Whirling Hall Of Knives promo clip for album Blown Vestige on Cruel Nature Records