Undoubtedly, two underdogs from Amsterdam make their mark with Kill Your Darlings.

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Anna Randt follows an intuitive approach, letting ideas unfold freely and using listening as a tool to navigate tension. Instead of resolving what feels unsettled, she leans into it, steering sound where it resists explanation. Papi Gaba grounds his practice in experiment and materiality, coaxing sound from 1960s test equipment, reshaping genres through circuit-bent machines, and, at times, turning old beer tanks into resonant bodies. Together, the producer duo forges a dialogue between instinct and engineering, pulling tension and sonic patina into their debut album.

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Pieced together over months of improvisation in their Amsterdam Noord studio, Kill Your Darlings pulls from detuned guitars, Korg MS2000 lines, drums, foley, and voice fragments, all threaded through an Akai 4000-DS tape machine whose warped loops hold the record together. What began as free play slowly took shape through careful refinement in the edit. Accidents turned into structure in a process of cutting through the noise and letting go, a method that ultimately gave the album its name.

Released on cassette via Anekumena Tapes, the album comes with a booklet of poetry, artwork, and studio photographs, extending its tactile world beyond sound.

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Anekumena Tapes is an Amsterdam-based label and collective dedicated to experimental music, spanning genres from ambient and dance to contemporary classical and noise. Its catalogue highlights connections across disparate currents, music for uninhabited territories, treading the line between inside and outside the club. The label is guided by Arieh Chrem and Philip Przybyło, whose roots in classical music and composition lend a disciplined framework to its restless experimentation.

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Minimal Collective shines a spotlight on Lyra. What first strikes as a wall of distorted bass soon reveals its full character, charging up bar by bar with industrial, metallic intensity. The sound is dense and abrasive yet tightly controlled. As strings and percussion enter, it twists into a charged interplay of rhythm and brutalistic sound. Noise here, in all its dissonance, feels round and resolved, with distortion not as an added effect but as bedrock binding its jagged edges into a coherent whole.

Full tracklist

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1. Kill Your Darlings

2. Cut Them Where It Hurts

3. Lyra

4. Fourth Edition

5. 4000DS (Kick Version)

6. 4000DS (No Kick Version)

7. Extended Outro

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‍Kill Your Darlings will be out on September 5th, 2025. Pre-order a copy via Bandcamp.