PRESS

“A mature, coherent, and deeply evocative debut” Ondarock

** No. 1 Best Album of 2025: “Sends shivers down my spine on every listen. An incredible album…beautifully rendered instrumentation and performances. A truly timeless atmosphere.” Existence Establishment

“Beautifully burgeoned into life one moment, then finished with the meticulous delicacy of brushstrokes the next, there’s a magical eeriness to the songs… We cannot help but be spellbound” Louder Than War

“An insanely well-realized debut and one of the most genuinely interesting hauntological artifacts to enter the canon in years” Spectrum Culture

“A tribute album riddled with suitably creepy folk stylings…weaving dreampop guitars around Beck’s own haunting vocals” Fortean Times

**Best new albums in October NPR Music

**Staff Pick Of The Week Picadilly Records

“Such a delightful album… witchy, otherly, ethereal, spiritual, delicately strong, full of earthly treasure… This is delicious, tantalising, beautiful” Organ Thing

“Remarkable debut… Immediately poetic” Blow Up

“Incredibly beautiful. Chimehours…fit beautifully into current ghost/horror movies” Betreutes Proggen

“Folk horror, ghost stories and the supernatural through a distinctly hauntological lens… timeless, mysterious and otherworldly” Norman Records

“The album unfolds like an imaginary soundtrack…that will certainly resonate with a discerning audience” Side-Line

“Folk tinges with crystalline dreamy vocals… The dappling instrumentation and the faint drone in the ether capture this sense of existential mystery and enigma… thrilling” Backseat Mafia

“Impressive…an airy, eccentric trip” Noise.FI

“Folk-horror, ghost stories, retro cinema and British landscape lore… Fine stuff” Moonbuilding

“Their twists bewitch, work in the belly…Underneath The Earth is a landscape to be explored, in which light and dark, dream and fatality come together. From its depths, a presence manifests itself” Obskure

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ABOUT

“Underneath The Earth” is the debut album from Chimehours; a hauntological music project for the dislocated present day. Taking inspiration from Max Porter’s novel “Lanny”, the album digs into themes of nature, myth and community, with an edge of folk-horror.

Drones, drums and gritty guitars are juxtaposed with woodwind, strings and ethereal song. Written and produced between Derbyshire, London and Margate, the album takes musical influence from the likes of Liz Fraser, Broadcast, Beth Gibbons, Bibio and Jóhann Jóhannsson, and atmospheric cues from The Wickerman, The Fog, and Enys Men.

Chimehours is a collaboration between Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix. The pair have previously performed in bands together and composed music for award-winning film and television. They conjured up this foray into cinematic, horror-flecked contemporary-folk to explore their love of the supernatural and the other-than-human.

Chimehours raid the vaults of 70’s British cinema and trad folk soundscapes to riff on contemporary anxieties and ecological yearning. The result is a collection of all things earthy, exquisite and grotesque.

FFO: Darkher, The Unthanks, Wardruna, Jóhann Jóhannsson…

CD in matt-laminate digipak.

LP on 180gm black vinyl in matt-laminate sleeve (Ltd 250).

Ltd LP on 180gm earth green vinyl in matt-laminate sleeve (Ltd 250).
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releases October 24, 2025

Chimehours are Beck Goldsmith and Jon Dix.

Written, performed, produced & mixed by Chimehours.

Mastered by Martin Bowes (The Cage Studios).

Additional Instrumentation on songs 8 & 10 by Francis O’Donnell-Smith.

Lyrical excerpts from Lanny by Max Porter used with kind permission from the author and publisher.

Artwork and layout by Leonie Dubarry-Gurr, Chimehours (final assembly by Abby Helasdottir).

Chimehours photographs by Tim Topple.

‘Underneath The Earth’ official video by John Bradburn.

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