Immersion: WTF?? 12" wm60LP / CD wm60CD / Digital wm60D

 

Immersion: WTF??   12" wm60LP / CD wm60CD / Digital wm60D 

Album: 26 September 2025 | pre-order here | LP on bio vinyl

Single: ‘Use It Don’t Lose It’ | 28 July 2025 (on all streaming platforms) | Watch the video on YouTube

Vinyl A: 1. Defiance / 2. Use It Don't Lose It / 3. It's A Long Way To Brooklyn / 4. Timeline 
Vinyl B :5. How To Be / 6. Change Of Use / 7. Push The Rock / 8. On The Longest Day
What the f*ck?? What the f*cking f*ck??

It’s the only realistic response to these dark, divisive and dangerous times. How do you react? How do you feel? How do you soundtrack?

Immersion is the project of post-punk musical architects Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) and Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck, Savak & Lake Ruth). Since the pandemic, Immersion has been mainly working on their Nanocluster collaborations but they have now re-engaged with the core project after a UK and USA tour gave them a shot of musical urgency and lyrical immediacy.

The crafted creativity of the core unit has seen their previous projects honed down in their studio set-up but the magic of the live moment sparked a new necessity to the sound. It sees the four instrumentals and the four vocal pieces of the album created with an added energy and a connection to the shared hopes and fears of the band, its audience and the wider community. It musically catches a moment reacting to the apocalyptic madness of these times and trying to come to terms with it. The songs snapshot these uncertain days adding another layer of humanity to the music and another level of ‘what the f*ck??’.

If the Nanocluster project is about collaboration then Immersion in 2025 is a response to where humanity finds itself in the second decade of the 21st century. It reacts to not only that relentless rhetoric of these times but also how we as humans should respond. Music is the message, the medium, the massage and the moment. This song collection manages to combine the unease with hope, minimally hypnotic songwriting with taut melodies and inventiveness with groove.

The lead-off track released on 28 July is ‘Use It Don’t Lose It’, which they describe as “An expression of us both together, saying the same thing for ourselves and for others. The words are so direct they need no explanation. Anyone could join in with the chanting!” The album will follow in September 2025 and there will be UK dates later in the year.

‘Thank you for your attention to this matter!’

JOHN ROBB, Manchester, July 2025

UK 2025 tour dates

Sat 30 Aug: Woodbridge, Festival of Arts & Music
Fri 03 Oct: Brighton, The Actors – Late L(a)unch in conversation with John Robb & album playback
Wed 29 Oct: Leeds, The Attic 
Thur 30 Oct: Glasgow, MONO
Fri 31 Oct: Manchester, Kamera
Sat 01 Nov: Coventry, Just Dropped In    
Mon 03 Nov: London, Cafe OTO 
Thur 04 Dec: Brighton, Alphabet

More dates to be announced. immersionhq.uk always carries a gig list with ticket links as does Immersion's Spotify profile.