Knifedoutofexistece - Dead Man's Eyes.

KNIFEDOUTOFEXISTENCE – Dead Man's Eyes – Cassette/Digital – Outsider Art – 2026.

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          1.     Imagined Peace.

          2.     Fills My Lungs Like Liquid.

I have a fond relationship with the work of  knifedoutofexistence, I have seen the project play live many times since it started and reviewed many recordings on here. His other project Playworker is worth investigating too.

Imagined Peace starts with slow rumbling which sounds like a contact microphone shuffling and scraping. Feedback and hissing cut into the sound, once this is all established, everything gradually intensifies. Voice like noises wail in the background making the work feel very haunted, which occurs in a lot of recent knifedoutofexistence recordings, particularly, releases like Gone Is the Shell Garden or Tracing Roots Now Severed. As the tension of the work reaches its' peak and the vocal goes off in the background, the signature style of the project is very evident at the end.

Acoustic guitar notes are plucked, humming sounds exist in the background, it feels like a field recording backing the guitar sounds. The background noise increases to roaring distortion, drones and feedback as the guitar shifts to the background. Unintelligible voice booms over everything and the sound descends into something that is simultaneously heavenly and dark. As this breaks down to abstract sound once the voice and guitar fade, the shift into a kind of resonating lonely space is impressive.

Everything I hear by knifed is great, the project continues to fall further into ghostly new territory while still clearly retaining the core elements of  knifedoutofexistence. The wobbly tightrope of progression always risks a steep, unforgiving fall, yet Dean Lloyd Robinson continues to maintain his balance perfectly.

Nothing and Nobody 2026.