Loud Cities Magazine _Issue 3_03_2021

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Loud Cities Magazine / #3 MAR 2021
REVIEW Mike D.
THIS IS THE BRIDGE’s
Significant New LP “World Without End”
via TONN Recordings
On February 19, Belfast-based Tonn
Recordings released the striking new
album “World Without End” by the
London-based act This Is the Bridge.
This record includes 11 ‘memorial
anthems’ on the modern dying world
or 11 narrations about the world’s
Tenebrae. It is like dancing ecstatically
on such music cynically describing the
situation in this unfortunate world of
mankind.
“World Without End” LP is a beautifully
ironic album and it is created and
designed by one of the UK’s most
prolific and important presences in
British synth today. That synth kind
which origins from the early dawn of
Dystopia and all the way through the
‘fret and worried’ soul of its composer,
the infinitely talented This Is The
Bridge. This one is not any computer
puzzle music but a rather cinematic
Eraserhead-meets-Pi(π) artifact by all
means. Proto/Primitive, Minimal synthpunk
together with all the waves from
Albion’s coldwave horizon and with a
good and strong dose from the inner
denouncements of the Darkwave and
the nice wicked dances of post-punk;
this is a totally imposing album.
Listen to ‘Disintegrate”
I was looking to find something that
would push me deeper into TITB‘s
psyche and I found it on the official
Tonn Recordings website, in the field
with interviews I read (and copy here):
Mary McIntyre (TONN): “What have
been the greatest influences in the
development of This Is The Bridge’s
sound?”
Richard (TITB): “Creatively speaking….
my love of music. Recalling the very
real fear of nuclear war. Childhood.
Memories. The 1970s. A teacher
playing the class Mendelssohn’s
Fingal’s Cave when I was eight.
Hearing OMD’s ‘Messages’ on the local
radio in Liverpool the same year (and
being transfixed). Quatermass. A love
of abstraction. The 1980s. The impact