Suffering Jukebox

This morning's episode features an interview with Big|Brave's Mat Ball and Robin Wattie. Big|Brave have recently released their latest album, In Grief Or In Hope, via Thrill Jockey Records. Find out more about Big|Brave (and purchase their music) here: https://bigbrave.bandcamp.com/

Nick's Pick of the Week is Earth Trax's Everlasting Flame, you can hear it in all the usual places, or purchase it here: https://earthtraxonline.bandcamp.com/album/everlasting-flame and my review can be read below.

Earth Trax: Everlasting Flame (Lapsus Records)

Released 12th June 2026

Earth Trax is the project of Warsaw, Poland based electronic artist Bartosz Kruczyński. Active since 2016, Kruczyński has released numerous albums, EPs and singles under various monikers, but most prominently under his own name, The Phantom and Earth Trax. Everlasting Flame’s style fluctuates between the deconstructed side of techno and the more experimental side of dub, it’s an oddly fluid album and one that is adaptable for both early morning and late night listens. 

Everlasting Flame borrows far more from Dreams And Whispers, released in 2024 under Kruczyński’s own name, than anything recently released as Earth Trax — with the possible exception of 2023’s Closer Now, but even that was a far more danceable affair. 

A double album that spans fourteen tracks, Everlasting Flame features over an hour of ambient, industrial, dub-techno, think some of the more recent solo releases by The Bug on Kevin Richard Martin’s Pressure label: ghostly, broken, glitchy —but beautiful— electronic soundscapes. In The Zone, Wait And See and Towboat really amplify the industrial elements, whilst Out In The Cold allows a brief, dance-like reprieve, whereas the title-track expertly combines the album’s two main elements for fitting finale.

Eerily beautiful and sonically soothing, Everlasting Flame is an album that slowly works it magic, but before you know you are completely under its spell. Kruczyński’s move into even more experimental, ambient territory is a welcome shift indeed and a potential herald of even more exciting things to come.

Nick Stephan