The second album of OVERLAYS (2026), ‘Unstable Mishaps’, has just been released (18 September 2026). For more information about how it was created, see OVERLAYS (2026) on Lugubrious 78 - About the Music. The first Track, ‘Held to Account for Hallucinations’, can be streamed below.

The first album, ‘ Ominous Repeat’, was released on 26 June 2026 on streaming platforms and is now available on Lugubrious 78 at Lugubrious 78 - OVERLAYS (2026). 

The first percussion / drum-only album of the Lugubrious 78 - DRUM AUTOMATISM SERIES (2026) has been released. Consisting of fourteen improvised, chopped, randomised, recompiled, discarded, and overlaid pieces, ‘Broken Streams of Consciousness (Drum Automatism, Vol. 1) is available to stream and download on Lugubrious 78.com, Subvert, Mirlo, and Bandcamp. More information about how it was created can be found at DRUM AUTOMATISM SERIES (2026). This is the first Lugubrious 78 release not available on streaming platforms as we contemplate our relationship with the (increasingly exploitative?) medium. The first track, ’Reflections on Instability', can be streamed below.

It is not clear if this is a good idea. Or even whether it will happen. A considerable amount of irreverent exploration along four main themes:

1. Sketches of Musical Thought: A three-volume series of instrumental tracks, including work-in-progress sketches, instrumental versions of songs with words, and more of the same.
2. Overlays: A two-volume collection. One consists of the two albums released with words in 2025 ('The Twelfth Ominous Anxiety' and 'Repeat. Blindly.') dropped on top of each other. The other takes 'Mishaps from History' and 'Subtle Antimusic' and does basically the same. What happens to the musical interactions and meanings when the context of the music is dramatically altered through abrupt, blatant combinations of that music? Do they become unlistenable? Do they offer something new? Is it just a grift, spamming the music world with empty nothingness? Focus on the real-time noise of multiple thoughts. See OVERLAYS (2026) for more details.
3. Drum Automatism: Two albums of drum improvisations recorded over a few months, in which the multitrack recordings have been reorganised following the principles developed for the next theme (see Lugubrious 78 - DRUM AUTOMATISM SERIES (2026) for details). Microscale overlays. Are there any other albums solely of drums? Talent and quality as shaped by a highly conforming musical world?
4. Chop. Randomise. Recompile. Discard. (C.R.R.D.): An eight-volume series that takes the roughly 374 minutes of all releases from 2024 and 2025 and applies the core compositional concept of C.R.R.D. (see Lugubrious 78 - CHOP. RANDOMISE. RECOMPILE. DISCARD. (2026) for details). What happens? A meditation on algorithmic music? A lazy approach to composition? More spamming? Fragmenting into unfamiliar forms? Grotesque self-plagiarism? Aleatory joy in an era of banal form.

To offset these (largely) instrumental offerings, the first of this year's releases consists of the usual psychological-political musings, capturing songs written over the last thirty years (see Lugubrious 78 - EMPTY CHAIRS SERIES (2025 - 2026) for details). To make everything profoundly unbearable, an accompanying text is being prepared that captures a multitude of meaningless musical musings from the beginnings of Lugubrious 78. An exploration of the evolution of ideas or a culmination of years of pretension heated in the timidity of a fictional recording studio (sorry Tzara!). This may see the light of day. It may not.

The album release schedule is as follows:

Post updated: 18 September 2026