New Subscriber Playlist: “Of These Reminders, Volume 2”

This year marks the 40th anniversary of one of my favorite record labels: Sam Rosenthal’s Projekt Records. Originally started as a cassette-only label for Rosenthal to release his own music, the label has since become one of the world’s pre-eminent goth, darkwave, and ambient labels.

According to its Discogs profile, Projekt has put out over 750 releases in the last four decades. This month’s playlist — titled “Of These Reminders, Volume 2″ — highlights just a handful of those releases, and spans numerous genres, from goth and darkwave (Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Lycia), dreampop (Love Spirals Downwards), shoegaze (lovesliescrushing, Mira), and ambient/electronic (Forrest Fang, Steve Roach, Dirk Serries, Erik Wøllo).

Accompanying the playlist is the latest episode of my“Playlist Breakdown” podcast, in which I spotlight one of the playlist’s songs and why it’s so special, interesting, and/or meaningful. In this month’s episode, I discuss “Write in Water,” a gorgeous dreampop gem from Ardor, the 1994 sophomore album from Love Spirals Downwards.

Both of these are little bonuses for subscribers who support Opus financially. If you’d like to get access to them (and more), subscribe to Opus for $5/month or $50/year. (You can also subscribe for free and get my weekend newsletter.)