Suffering Jukebox

This morning's episode features an interview with Grace Stevenson aka Rebel Yell. Miss Worldwide, the new Rebel Yell EP, was released last Friday via Dinosaur City Records. Find out more about Rebel Yell (and purchase her music) here: https://rebelyellrebelyell.bandcamp.com/music

Nick's Pick of the Week is Jad Atoui's It Will Take Forever, you can hear it in all the usual places, or purchase it here: https://jad-atoui.bandcamp.com/album/it-will-take-forever and my review can be read below.

Jad Atoui: It Will Take Forever (Ruptured Records)

Released July 17th 2026

Based in Beirut, Lebanon, Jad Atoui is a an experimental composer and improviser who draws influence from noise, drone and rave cultures. His fourth album, It Will Take Forever, is built from live, modular synthesiser performances that took place in Beirut between 2023 and 2025.

Each of the six tracks that comprise It Will Take Forever owe their genesis to longer compositions, intended to be experienced at high volumes in venues and art spaces. On record, despite being condensed, the tracks still echo the energy of their forbears, bristling with life and urgency —if you can play it loud —I mean really loud— do so, you won’t regret it.

Despite the liveliness of the record, or perhaps even in spite of it, there is an underlying sense of tension (even dread) undercutting the entirety of It Will Take Forever. Fizzing electronics crackle ominously, building slowly and purposefully, before vanishing into thin air and being denied a moment of sonic catharsis. It is tempting to attribute this undercurrent of tension to Atoui being forced to create under the spectre of violence and occupation being perpetrated against Lebanon by Israel. Whether this is true or not is up for debate, but the presence of unease is unmistakably there.

It Will Take Forever is a dense and multifaceted record that defies expectations and descriptions. Despite being floored by it on the first listen, further spins revealed additional secrets and invited further discoveries. Expansive, meditative and completely thrilling, It Will Take Forever is a complex album of experimental electronica, don’t expect to understand everything the first time you hear it, but keep trying and trust me, it’s worth it.

Nick Stephan