After a series of raw, cathartic releases and a reputation for confrontational live performances, Sunk Heaven emerges transformed with their most fully realized work to date: ‘DUD-TECH’ — a genre-fracturing record that melds the world-ending noise of their live show with the poise and restraint of an artist mastering their craft.
Recorded between 2020 and 2025 with Evin Huguenin at Black Lace Studios in Providence, RI, DUD-TECH is the sound of decay giving way to reconstruction. Where earlier Sunk Heaven releases thrashed at the edge of collapse, this album opens space for contrast: dub’s echo chambers, ambient stillness, and industrial abrasion coexist in a tense, shifting balance.
Violinist Adam Markiewicz (LEYA, The Dreebs) and Zach Rowden on double bass help shape this disorienting new terrain—where slow-motion club rhythms dissolve into vapor trails and vocal mantras flicker in and out of the mix like corrupted transmissions.
This is not ambient as retreat, nor noise as assault. DUD-TECH thrives in contradiction: moments of calm rupture into chaos, and structure emerges just long enough to be undone. It’s an emotionally volatile, sonically intricate record—at once more spacious and more vulnerable than anything in Sunk Heaven’s catalog.
The first single, “In the Flesh (Remix)” (out July 11), distills the record’s essence—a fragile tension riding a nervous pulse, its contours shaped as much by absence as by presence. It’s a clear signal of the album’s embrace of form without surrendering unpredictability. Sequenced synthesizers come in and out, and a pop structure takes form only to be intentionally detonated.
If past Sunk Heaven records transmitted from a scorched earth, DUD-TECH speaks from what’s left—haunted ruins, flickering screens, and the tentative movement of new life. Out now on Workplace.
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