photos by David Brenner
New York’s GRIDFAILURE unveils a new album, When The Lights Go Out Vol. IV, as a free download for Halloween.
Lower Hudson/NYC-based GRIDFAILURE is the audiovisual entity David Brenner, yielding dense, tension-filled output, with elements of dark ambient and dark hardcore, infused with jazz, world music, folk, harsh noise, electronica, punk, and more. Operating solo or with a cast of collaborators, the project has amassed dozens of independent releases, including collaborative albums, splits, and more.
With three years having passed since the prior installment, the fourth volume of the When The Lights Go Out continues the series’ tradition of delivering movements that are less confrontational, annihilating, and conceptually apocalyptic than the standard GRIDFAILURE output, instead, focusing on droning atmospheres and hair-raising filmic auras, taking inspiration from classic horror cinema and literature.
GRIDFAILURE’s When The Lights Go Out Vol. IV sees creator David Brenner experimenting with tones created with acoustic-electric guitar, bass, keys/synths, pedals/effects, field recordings, minimalist vocals, and more, while handling the primary recordings, all mixing, photography, design, and cover art, and the record was mastered by Dan Emery/Black Matter Mastering. The record also features contributions from platinum jazz/rock recording artist Mac Gollehon (Onyx, Blondie, Duran Duran, David Bowie, GRIDFAILURE-live), Leila Abdul-Rauf (Vastum, Ionophore), Dan Emery (Thetan), Benjamin Levitt (Megalophobe, GRIDFAILURE-live), Liz Ciavarella-Brenner, Natasha Padilla, and Rob Levitt.
GRIDFAILURE’s When The Lights Go Out Vol. IV is available for free download exclusively at Bandcamp RIGHT HERE.
When The Lights Go Out Vol. IV Track Listing:
1. Shadows Manifest
2. Unfathomable Decomposition
3. Deaden
4. Parasomnia
5. Clock Of Bones
6. The Husking
7. Passe-Muraille
8. It’s Only A Matter Of Time Now
9. First Eyewitness Accounts Of This Grisly Development
10. Final Transition
GRIDFAILURE will play a live improv show in Brooklyn on December 18th, the release show for the new LP by longtime collaborator Leila Abdul-Rauf, with Compactor and Taksǝs also on the bill. Additional live actions for 2025 are underway.
GRIDFAILURE Live:
12/18/2024 Hart Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Leila Abdul-Rauf, Compactor, Taksǝs [info]
In the coming days, GRIDFAILURE will unveil details of the long-awaited third installment of its ongoing five-album concept series, Sixth Mass-Extinction Skulduggery III, which will be released through Nefarious Industries in early 2025, and includes contributions from more than two dozen collaborators, including members of Today Is The Day, Vastum, Chrome Waves, and more. A collaborative GRIDFAILURE album with Tovarish, the first of multiple fully audiovisual releases with Pornohelmut, and multiple other titles are also being completed for release in the new year. GRIDFAILURE will also soon release new records through Anti-Corporate Music as well as Today Is The Day founder Steve Austin’s SuperNova Records.
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