Plutonic Rainbows

Nurse With Wound’s Salt Marie Celeste is not just an album — it’s an immersive séance, a slow-burning invocation of the unknown. A single, unbroken track stretching beyond an hour, it feels less like music and more like an aural ritual, channeling something ancient, spectral, and submerged.

Built on two slowly shifting minor chords, the piece drifts through a fog of unsettling textures: distant wails, the creaking of unseen wooden structures, and a wind that could just as easily be whispering voices from another realm. The soundscape is reminiscent of an abandoned ship adrift in dark waters — an audible ghost story with no clear resolution. This sense of unease is deeply tied to the album’s occult leanings; it operates as an auditory sigil, a slow-motion descent into a liminal space where time dissolves, and reality bends.

Much like the esoteric practices that inspired parts of Nurse With Wound’s discography, Salt Marie Celeste requires deep patience and surrender. For some, its repetition and minimalism may feel like an endurance test, but for those willing to fully immerse themselves, it offers a deeply meditative and unsettling experience. The album doesn’t just evoke the supernatural — it inhabits it. Whether as a dark meditation tool or an eerie background for an introspective night, Salt Marie Celeste stands as one of the most evocative ritualistic soundscapes ever crafted.

For more complex editing, I have switched over to Claude Code, an agentic coding tool developed by Anthropic that integrates directly into your terminal, offering AI-powered assistance to enhance development workflows. Currently in beta as a research preview. At present, Claude Code uses claude-3-7-sonnet-20250219 by default.

• Claude Code can edit files, fix bugs, and refactor code across your entire codebase, providing explanations of architecture and logic in natural language.

• It handles routine tasks such as testing, linting, and interacting with version control systems like Git, including searching, merging, committing, and reviewing pull requests.

• The tool is capable of generating structured, multi-file code solutions, managing large codebases, and utilizing tools within intricate programming workflows.

So far, I have been impressed but the API is quite expensive.

Second album from Richie Culver due on Friday. This follow-up release builds on the limited-edition debut by offering a diverse mix of soundscapes. The record shifts seamlessly from the raw, intense noise assault of Army Crawl to the sparkling techno energy of Dream Pills, and it also delivers a robust warehouse vibe in Docker, reflecting the artist’s expertise as a DJ. The album’s most captivating moments are found in its central tracks, where Death Happens Here creates a sublime ambient tension that hints at transformative euphoria, while At Your Worst presents a rich, gothic ambient atmosphere. Overall, the album takes the listener on a compelling journey through varied electronic landscapes, blending intense energy with refined, immersive textures.

Recorded in the coastal town of Hvisten in southeastern Norway, Espen Friberg and Jenny Berger's debut collaborative full-length is a duet on Serge modular and pipe organ that lands somewhere between Kali Malone and BoC.

There's a familiarity to this one, and that's not a bad thing by any means. As soon as the first tones of Below A Layer Bend Aside emerge, there's a feeling of comfort from hearing a well-worn synth alongside the hum of an old church organ. Friberg and Berger think of the instruments as siblings and they're not wrong; they met when Berger contributed to Friberg's debut solo album Sun Soon and enjoyed the process so much that they decided to take it a step further, retreating to the Norwegian coast to take advantage of Hvisten's pipe organ. And although there are plenty of organ-electronic fusions out there right now, there's an undeniable warmth to this one that makes it attention worthy.

Harnessing the relationship between air and electricity, Friberg and Berger often obscure the instruments by blending them so thoroughly. On The Sun The Fog, the fluttering Serge tones follow the organ's breathy whine before the two instruments split apart majestically, the pipe organ scattering into dramatic folk phrases and the synth splintering to remind you what you're hearing. Even on Bright Colored Armor, where the Serge takes more of a traditional role, circling the kosmische canon with skipping, resonant sequences, the organ replies with majestic Jarre-esque compliments. And they reverse the roles on Sibling Horses Heart, with the organ playing synth-like sequences and the Serge accompanying it with quivering drones.