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The Mid-Century Molluscs perform Unthunk’s “Return to the sea” is now available on all your favourite streaming platforms, and remains available on Bandcamp.

Enjoy this delightful little video illustrating one of the sections of “Reverence”, a song on The Mid-Century Molluscs perform Unthunk’s “Return to the sea”. Italian multi-media artist Isobel Blank created a pen and ink animation to show the breaking wave described in the lyric: Hypnotic stillness settles on Singular band emerging, darkening Inexorably upward drawn … Read more

Unthunk is honoured to have a contribution from Giovanni Grandi on The Mid-Century Molluscs perform Unthunk’s “Return to the sea”. While on vacation in the Azores, Giovanni settled into a secluded rocky bay, absorbing the ocean sounds to conceive a suitable piece.  While originally envisioning his modular synthesizer, heavily filtered, to express the ocean’s power as heard … Read more

The Mid-Century Molluscs perform Unthunk’s “Return to the sea” is a tribute to Rachel Carson was born and raised in Pennsylvania, away from the ocean, but found her calling in marine biology. The song “Reverence” is the first preview for the album, imagining the progress of her discovery of the ocean to the epiphany that … Read more

The Mid-Century-Molluscs perform Unthunk’s “Return to the sea” album release is scheduled for release on Bandcamp, January 11, 2026. There is one song available for preview now. Check it out at https://unthunk.bandcamp.com/album/the-mid-century-molluscs-perform-unthunk-s-return-to-the-sea

The Rachel Carson project is scheduled for release on January 11, 2026 on Bandcamp. Stay tuned, and in the meanwhile, some details are available at /projects/mcm.

For some reason, Spotify has added the Unthunk song Recruiting to one of its (generated?) playlists. The song is from the album Coin, which features a suite of pieces presented as written for a suicide cult by the resident musical propagandist. Recruiting is the outer layer of the cult’s public persona, luring in members with … Read more

What does Rachel Carson have to do with Brazilian samba music? The new Unthunk project is inspired by the marine biologist Rachel Carson, and for obscure reasons, it seemed that some popular mid-century music could provide some appealing relief. So we’re venturing into the popular music in Carson’s era – it has been a journey! … Read more