is a new cut from Ruminator, a side-project of Diminished Men‘s guitarist Steve Schmitt. Brooding and pensive, this song embodies exactly the project’s name.

Spekulation is making his second appearance in Monarch Music, this time with a remix of Michele Khazak. 

also ruminates. Khazak’s lyrics lilt and sway, involuting and coiling against a sea of sonic melancholy.

is, more or less, a field recording. Louis Loomis, as the group calls itself, explores an eery musical landscape with distorted violin and anxious drums, the bass looming and dark. Errant keyboard tones arrive and depart like the cries of unknown creatures deep in the night. Guitar lines come and go, spidery, alien. This fifteen minute track is a synesthetic short film shot on hand-held cameras in the dusk of little-known territory.

All of this music is made by and for those who believe there is something submerged worth brooding over.