Suffering Jukebox

Multiple interviews this week!

This morning's episode features an interview with Spike Fuck, who will release their debut album, Evidence, via Sacred Bones this coming Friday, 2nd October. Spike Fuck will also play Crowbar this coming Saturday, 3rd October, alongside Lunar Dirt and Dominance. Find out more about Spike Fuck (and purchase his music) here: https://spikefuck.bandcamp.com/music

This week's show also features a phone interview with Stan from local three-piece Stan. What's The Use? and Don't Listen To Me are Stan's latest singles and the band will be playing two launch shows: At Banshees Bar in Ipswich on Saturday 3rd October with 88 Tokomak, Milly & The Maths Show and Gobarralong and at Weller's Hill Bowls Club on Sunday 11th October with Trawlers, Milly & The Maths Show and The Blankettes. Find out more about Stan (and purchase their music) here: https://thebandstan.bandcamp.com/music

Nick's Pick of the Week is Tashi Dorji & Faith Coloccia's And Their Power Was Alive, you can hear it in all the usual places, or purchase it here: https://tashidorji.bandcamp.com/album/and-their-power-was-alive and my review can be read below.

Tashi Dorji & Faith Coloccia: And Their Power Was Alive (Whited Sepulchre Records)

Released September 25th 2026

And Their Power Was Alive, a collaborative album between vocalist/percussionist Faith Coloccia and guitarist Tashi Dorji (which also features piano and organ by Nicholas Wilbur) is true labour of love and cooperation that took shape over several years. Dorji’s parts were recorded in 2021/2022, Wilbur’s in 2021 and Coloccia’s in 2024/2025, this sense of patience, of space, time and understanding is at the forefront of this beautiful record and a testament to the vision of all those involved.

There is something elemental about the album, this is evident in the song titles themselves, which reference the sea, ash, cinders and land/earth itself. Elemental, but not monumental, for it is a slow burn of a record that feels imparted with the slow shifting of time, the passing of the seasons or the transition from night to day. These may seem like abstract concepts, but the interplay between Dorji’s haunting guitar, Coloccia’s plaintive vocals and Wilbur’s sparse playing feels as natural as a summer’s breeze; and occasionally as brutal as a winter’s wind.

Each track imparts the album with its own spirit. Excessive Yield is little more than the reverberating sound of a tubular bell whilst Short Lived Echo gives the impression of a simple piano ballad, before descending into a haze of noise. This essence of quiet vs. loud experimentalism is extended on Invisible Lines Between Imaginary Lands, before Silica’s Last Word closes the album on a eerie yet wistful note.

Together, Coloccia and Dorji have conjured up something truly wonderful, an album that is rich with experimentalism, yet it is neither difficult nor demanding. And Their Power Was Alive is a compelling listen that doesn’t ask too much of its audience, instead it immerses them in a cocoon of sonic beauty that —given its 34 minute runtime— is, unfortunately, far too short.

Nick Stephan