A Curious Doubling of Terms

Audiobulb Records, Sheffield UK

Released September 6, 2025

“Metaphysics” was featured on BBC Radio 3, the BBC’s flagship arts and culture program.

Radio Broadcasts

BBC Radio 3 — “Night Tracks” | Hosted by Hannah Peel. An adventurous, immersive soundtrack for late-night listening, from classical to contemporary and everything in between.
Broadcasts: September 22, 2025, 10 PM (BBC Radio 3 Unwind); October 17, 2025, 10 PM (BBC Radio 3 Unwind)

Radio FRO — “Fadimat105” (Linz, Austria) | Curated and presented by Tanja Fieger.
Broadcast: October 25, 2025, 10 PM

Radio Bandito — “Sleep Dose #141” | Broadcast feature alongside works by Ran Slavin, Etceteral, Phenomenal World, Kaukolampi, IKI, Jessica Moss, M. Sage, Liv Andrea Hauge Trio, Treen, Goose Green, Raphael Loher, Alessandro Bosetti, David Lee Myers, Slomo, and Larum.
Broadcast: September 24, 2025, 10 PM

WRUV — “The Floating Head of Zsa Zsa” | Broadcast by Laima Harmon.
Broadcast: August 19, 2025, 10:26 AM

Radio Free FM, Germany | Playlisted broadcast feature.
Broadcast: September 2025


Reviews / Mentions

Silence and Sound | “A delicate album … where every second is an invitation to be carried by waves imbued with languid slowness and stellar poetry … superb.” (translated from the French)

Igloo Magazine | “A standout in 2025’s ambient landscape … combining bowed strings, granular synthesis, and hushed rhythms … intimate pieces where silence, shimmer, and circuitry intertwine.”

ChainDLK | “Feels like a diary written half in moss, half in binary … bowed strings rubbing against the algorithmic churn.”

Musique Machine | “Parades all of his talents … fans of expertly crafted improvisation with acoustic and electronics will appreciate Thorn’s attention to detail and pacing.”

A Closer Listen — Fall Music Preview | Listed among the season’s “incredible crop of music.” “Foggy textures meet forlorn violin and supple beats on a curious doubling of terms, which combines the organic and the electronic, reflecting the liminal spaces between forest and city.”

The Slow Music Movement | “A thought-provoking ambient work that blurs the boundaries between acoustic intimacy and electronic abstraction.”

DaMusic — Schemerzone | Included in international new music roundup. “Thorn distances himself from that craving for perfection, opting instead for a slightly hazier sound with soft synth veils, lightly sanded glitch effects, and violin work. A Curious Doubling of Terms thus becomes a journey through dreamland.”

Hypercube Audio | “An entrancing work of sonic exploration, weaving intricate layers of orchestral-ambient texture with organic motifs and emotive undercurrents. It conjures windswept deserts, distant planets, and spectral skies.”

Headphone Commute — Out in 2025 | “Foggy textures of violin and code unfold into twilight.”


Chart Feature

“Metaphysics” — charted by AFTERLIFE on Juno Download (October 5, 2025)