“This album explores the idea that sampling and repetition in electronic music can mirror echolalia, in various different ways, and that it can summon personal ghosts using random noise and pattern recognition. Through sampling old documentaries on child development, mental health and other related archival footage, it also examines the ways in which autism is still haunted by past versions of itself. ”
— Conflux Coldwell
“Rather than simply pointing at the spectres of hauntological ur-texts, Coldwell rearranges their facsimile cadavers, reordering the detritus of hauntology into looping, shifting cycles to see if new meanings leak out…. In seeing it as an autistic mode of expression, Coldwell is not simply scouring for nostalgic detritus - he's using the recontextualisation of those artefacts as a way to connect new dots, find new patterns, administer his own therapy.”
— The Wire
The Ghosts Are Within
Conflux Coldwell performing Echolalia on the Time Service modular, Sidereal Bacchanalia, The Peerhat, Manchester with DVRK arts collective, July 2026
Conflux Coldwell - Echolalia
The full album is now available on Bulletdodge Records - vinyl and digital formats
https://confluxcoldwell.bandcamp.com/album/echolalia-2
The vinyl version comes with accompanying booklet featuring the essay previewed above called Spectrality on the Spectrum - you can read the rest of it by buying the album.
"There is a spectre haunting Conflux Coldwell, the spectre of autism."
Bulletdodge is proud to announce the release of Echolalia a striking new electronica album from Conflux Coldwell. Arriving digitally this June, with a vinyl edition to follow in early September, the album Echolalia explores the notion of internal “ghosts” — the lingering traces that inhabit the mind. Sparked by his daughter’s autism diagnosis earlier this year, and his sister’s AuDHD diagnosis the year before, Coldwell was prompted to reflect on his own neurodivergence. The result is a deeply personal and introspective work that interrogates how these experiences have shaped his creative process, his unique perception of the world, and his enduring fascination with machines and hauntology.
"The ten pieces on Echolalia are tense, intense, and hit the listener from all angles simultaneously. And in doing so, Coldwell not only captures, but replicates that sense of overstimulation, of excessive input... There is simply too much to take I in at once, and Coldwell knows this, because this is the soundtrack to assimilation and processing." Aural Aggravation
