I’m not sure whether this qualifies as ‘Lovecraftian’ in a strict sense of the term, but A Year in the Country’s audio release, The Quietened Bunker, certainly resonates with some of the Cold War-related Lovecraftiana discussed in previous posts - and with similar tropes which were interwoven into last year’s slice of daily Lovecraftian folk horror, The Horsingdon Transmissions.
The Quietened Bunker is an eerie aural exploration of the many abandoned underground installations whose presence throughout the British landscape continue to evoke the spectre of nuclear apocalypse - hollow, hauntological signifiers of a very particular class of nihilistic Cold War dread which afflicted the UK from the 1950s until the early 1980s, shaping popular forms of Lovecraft-inflected speculative media in the UK from Quatermass to classic-era Doctor Who.
Aside from which, the CD upon which The Quientened Bunker is recorded is a lovely, glossy black - which makes for a great scrying mirror. Although you might not like what you see within.
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