Conflux Coldwell in new book on hauntology

My hardback copy of Listening to Landscape by Prof. Phil Hubbard (2025, Bloomsbury) arrived today, looks great :)

My work as Conflux Coldwell (specifically The Phantomatic Coast album on Subexotic) and my film Views from Sunk Island (2022) are discussed at length in this fantastic new book book from Bloomsbury. My label, Crooked Acres Records, is also surprisingly well represented in this publication, as Megalithic Transport Network’s Engine Vein also gets a mention! This is the book’s blurb:

LISTENING TO LANDSCAPE
Phil Hubbard

The first book-length exploration of how English landscapes are represented in contemporary electronic and experimental music, Listening to Landscape ploughs its own furrow, combining ideas from psychogeography, hauntology and landscape studies to offer a distinctive take on the way contemporary music deals with the ghosts of an England that is fast disappearing.

Moving deftly between cultural theory, musicology and geography, Listening to Landscape serves as a primer on the 'hauntological' music scene that appears fixated on questions of landscape and Englishness. It argues this music is no mere exercise in nostalgia, but a provocation asking us to re-imagine England's place in the world at a time of economic and environmental crisis. Listening to Landscape speaks to urgent questions of national identity in the post-Brexit era, offering a distinctive take on the way contemporary culture deals with the ghosts and memories of Albion.

Includes a foreword by Justin P. Hopper, author of The Old Weird Albion.

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