One last plug for the Coffin Club party the Senior Staff will be DJing at this coming long weekend Sunday in Vancouver. As mentioned on the podcast, this particular iteration of the monthly party we’ve each been residents at for more than twenty years overlaps nicely with the (approximate) fifteenth anniversary of ID:UD, and we’ll be leaning into that by playing plenty of music that’s been featured on the site and podcast over that tenure, as well as some familiar club classics. Hope to see some local readers and listeners out, now on to this week’s tracks!

Miracle, masters of the impossible

ACTORS, “Left on Read”
Like some of their best and biggest songs, ACTORS’ new single “Left on Read” is anchored by a huge gritty bassline, an engine that pushed it inevitably through its broody verses to the big chorus. Like the excellent preceding cut from the Vancouver quartet “CTRL”, you can hear the care put into the production and mix by band leader Jason Corbett; while the band has always sounded pro on stage and on record, these new cuts have a weight and a depth to their design that is a noticeable step beyond a lot of comparable melodic post-punk, blending synths, vocals, guitars and drums in a way that keeps each distinct, but erases the seams, keeping the cut smooth and impactful. Still waiting on the third album announcement, but this should hold us down in the meantime.

Organist, “Black Moon Rising”
The new and cryptic project of Justin Hagberg (3 Inches Of Blood, Ritual Dictates) continues to unfold in unexpected directions while holding to a quietly brooding and contemplative tone which has made previous Organist tunes worthy of focused repeat listening around the HQ. There are some warmly smouldering traces of country in the bouquet of synthpop, neofolk, and doom metal elements we’ve already detected in previous Organist tunes in this one. Think Lee Hazlewood tilting in an Of The Wand And The Moon direction, perhaps?

Miracle, “PVC Vest”
UK synth duo Miracle’s work to date has moved between haunted gothic melancholia and beat-driven synthwave/soundtracking fare, with latter era Ulver releases often being a fair comparison. That continues with this lead single from third LP The Living Likeness Of My Electric Daemon, whose pads and vocals drift and drip languidly while rock-solid analog arpeggios are space trucking their way out to Aldebaran.

Requiem In White, “The Visible Heaven”
The wait for the new Requiem In White album is nearly up, and to be honest we’re still fairly shocked that the NY trad/romantic goth outfit’s reformation is actually happening, and based on the two teaser tracks we now have for The Visible Heaven the duo are picking up precisely where they left off with no rust on the joints after more than thirty years. Recorded cleanly and directly, the title cut earns its drama through organically building (and properly gothic rock) instrumentation and some impressive vocal arrangements from Lisa Stockton-Wilson.

Flesh Field feat. Assemblage 23, “Hegemony”
“Hegemony” is a track that was included as a bonus on the European deluxe edition of Flesh Field’s second comeback LP On Enmity earlier this year. The guest vocals from Tom Shear of Assemblage 23 are obviously cool to hear, but become especially meaningful when you know the history of the two projects, both of whom released their debuts on small Canadian labels around the same time, and who were long time friends and associates before either project had taken off. Featuring FF’s signature blend of bombast and orchestral sounds, as a compliment to Tom’s confident and powerful voice, it’s just cool to hear two bands of their tenure coming together in 2026 and sounding this good.

She 1 – Him 2, “Everybody Knows”
Released concurrently with their performance at Fixation this past Friday, Cleveland synthpop duo She 1 – Him 2 have released their new single “Everybody Knows”, a solid cut of robotic, melodic electro that recalls acts like Marsheaux and Client, especially in the switch between more monotone and sweetly sung vocals. It’s got a strong beat, a good hook and should fit nicely into DJ sets without much difficulty. Listen for those orch hits and some nice vocoder, always touches we’re gonna perk up for.