2025 @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social Mes oubliés de l’année #DavidGrubbs melondruie 🎶 Retreating Into Myself youtu.be/9fKaDgcDkdo?...

Been listening to this on repeat the last few days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4XM...

I'm becoming more of a misanthrope every day.

This year has been massive. We’ve unleashed 82 titles featuring 75 artists - 45 of whom joined the Cruel Nature family for the first time. Eternal gratitude, love and thanks to everyone for the support. Steve x cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

I don't think there is any better feeling than creating something and liking what you have created. If only it lasted.

Album end-of-year lists are just as suspiciously samey as ever 🤷‍♂️ I’ve listened to less new music this year because I’ve been making music so much, but here are the 2025 albums I’ve been listening to and enjoying a lot. I’ve probably forgotten loads, but I’ll try and fit these over 3 replies 👇

I wrote about listening, thinking, reflection, memory & not “offloading” it all to sp*tify! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

If I was good with words, I would be a writer.

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Fallen leaves and a low sun.

Fallen leaves and glittering water.

More and more I find words inadequate to express what I am thinking and feeling so I stay silent and listen to the wind in the trees.

Once again reminding folks that the ethical replacement to using Spotify isn’t another streaming platform; it’s buying music from artists when you’re in the financial position to do so and pirating them when you’re unable to do so. Or simply ask an artist for the files, like actually.

I don't know if what I'm doing is any good or if it is garbage and I'm not sure if it matters or not.

A little something for free, for those that might be interested. melondruie.bandcamp.com/track/lost-i... mirlo.space/melondruie/r...

Thanks for sharing Nick !

#NowPlaying Been really enjoying the two melondruie tapes on the ever brilliant @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social Still a few copies of the new one available. Nice droning electronics for those who might be interested. Very good indeed! cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/paths

Get down with Fat Concubine and @melondruie.bsky.social amongst a tower of quality tunes tomorrow night!

I refuse to conform. "Divergence" from the album "Paths". Tapes available from @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

The anti-vaccine movement is built on the ideas that autistic people live fundamentally devalued lives and that autism itself is basically contagious. I wrote about this in light of RFK’s most recent assault on vaccine research. Read at @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...

"Non-entity" from the album "Paths". Tapes available from @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social

Here are some blurry photos. Holga, infrared film, time

Thinking today about how my photography has become more and more abstract as a way of incorporating and expressing some of the complete disconnect I feel from reality most days. A disconnect built around a need to escape from the horror that is existing in this world that humanity has built ...

melondruie ‘long nights’ from the new album ‘paths’ - out now youtu.be/i1ETXXqhA_M?... @melondruie.bsky.social

@africanpaper.bsky.social premiere the video for ‘long nights’ by @melondruie.bsky.social Watch here africanpaper.com/2025/08/02/p...

OUT NOW melondruie ‘Paths’ (6 copies left) cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/paths Introspective ambient synth driven soundscapes inspired by the Pacific Northwest’s natural atmospherics @melondruie.bsky.social

PRE-ORDER melondruie ‘Paths’ cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/paths Introspective ambient synth driven soundscapes inspired by the Pacific Northwest’s natural atmospherics Also available as limited discount bundle with the album ‘Invisible’ @melondruie.bsky.social

Thinking a lot about death lately. Which is not really what the next album on the release schedule is about. But also, it kind of is.

"Karmic coma (Umber variation)" Sinking into a deep dub coma.

"Blue turning red (Crimson variation)" youtu.be/ruw-PO_qIpg

New music. Name your own price because I feel like it. Tracks from "Into the depths" reworked, slowed, reverbed, smeared, all those good thing until they sound like a strange dream at the bottom of the ocean. melondruie.bandcamp.com/album/variat... mirlo.space/melondruie/r...

The latest episode of The Ambient Hour on @audiointerface.bsky.social includes a melondruie track, as well of lots of other great music. Maybe go check it out. www.audiointerface.org/shows/the-am...

I cherish the seed of decay, disintegration, and gentle chaos in my music - AI can't touch it

Thank you Richard Thomas for the excellent @eleonorakampe.bsky.social feature-review in the latest @thewiremagazine.bsky.social “a powerful, honest and moving account of what it is to be human and what it is to articulate that humanity when words fail you” www.thewire.co.uk/issues/496

Diving deep into making blissed out ambient dub coma versions of the Into the Depths EP. Results will see the light of day sometime soon, or not.

Trying to escape the demons in my head through a plastic lens. It didn't work. Holga + red filter + expired film along the Skagit River.

Been working on an idea this week, examining some questions running through my head. How do you make things when everything feels pointless? Why do I keep creating even though I know it is ultimately futile? How many synth lines are enough and how many are too much? The answers remain elusive.

Nice review from Sun 13. "Between light and dark, hope and dread, melondruie delivers the kind of cavernous soundscapes that reach every corner." sun-13.com/2025/04/24/w...

Weirdo Rippers #17 Ft. @poppyhproducer.bsky.social (@fortevilfruit.bsky.social) | @melondruie.bsky.social ( @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social) | @hellonhearth.bsky.social | Neutrino Effect (@labilerecords.bsky.social) | Hekla | Tree Gardner / Empyrean Pines & more. sun-13.com/2025/04/24/w...

In 1939, Hitler authorized a euthanasia program for institutionalized disabled people It required doctors to first identify those who should be euthanized In 1941, this program became the model for the death camps A registry of disabled people is, in fact, a 5 alarm fire

Really feeling the absurdity of existence lately.

"As the authoritarian impulse strips America of any motivating ideals, the only -ism surviving is careerism" www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Such a fantastic label living up to its trademark of sonic diversity. Recent recommendation from me would be the beautiful new @melondruie.bsky.social album with its foggy synth tones and distant arpeggios.

Cruel Nature is 12 years old tomorrow! So we're giving 20% off all items purchased this weekend. Use the code "twelve" when checking out on Bandcamp. Ends 11:59 PM UTC on 20 April 2025 cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com

Normies don't know what to make of me or the things I create and seeing them struggle with it that uncomfortableness is one of my few joys in life.

Thank you to @slowmusicmovement.bsky.social for this lovely review of “Resilience” 🙏🏻

Review of my latest album plus lots of other Cruel Nature releases from Fighting Boredom. www.fighting-boredom.co.uk/album-review...

I put together an ambient mixtape that is being featured this month as part of Deep Electronics Ambient Sessions. It starts off with some existential musings from Celia Green and then spirals outwards into the universe. soundcloud.com/deep_electro...

This little tidbit of translated Dutch from a review of "Invisible" by Luminous Dash is just perfection. "Float to the stars, to the infinite. Or just repent, meditate to the depths of being you and then get lost in another infinity." luminousdash.be/reviews/melo...