A Nice Big Cock
The Cock by This Window Taken from a forthcoming album, The Cock blends together audio source material recorded throughout the 1980s — fragments captured on compact cassette, ¼‑inch reel‑to‑reel tape, and even a VHS handheld video camera. In 2026 these elements were pulled back into the light and rebuilt inside a new project using an older DAW, Cubase Studio 4 (version released in 2007) giving the piece a strange mix of analogue grit and early‑digital workflow. Pumping synth pulses throb like a buried heartbeat, while a lone cockerel crows somewhere in the background — a ragged echo from a world long gone. It feels like an archaeological dig in sound: the unearthing of a chicken that once was somebody’s lunch, now elevated to relic status. A forgotten scrap of everyday life, resurrected through tape hiss, broken circuitry, and the accidental poetry of decay. Free downloads and more music: https://thiswindow.bandcamp.com/ The Cock feels like opening a sealed time‑capsule from ...
