Unravelling from Unravelling by Channel D

Two other standout tracks perhaps lie at the heart of Unravelling: namely the noir soul of Stumbling and the creepy psych-pop of the hypnotic title track. “Unravelling and Stumbling are for me perhaps the key songs of the album,” says Nick. “Fear of nights, fear at night, anxiety and the feeling of everything falling apart when forced onto one’s own resources. General disintegration when normal patterns are taken away. There’s an image in Unravelling of a spider climbing up a disused train in the desert, in the bleakest of desolate landscapes. I really identified with that spider…”

Channel D is writer-singer, visual artist and film-maker Nick de Grunwald, whose debut 2013 album Mosaic Of Disarray was described by Q magazine as offering “worldly lyrics, no little panache and a gritty edge” and by Uncut as “dark baritone story-telling”. Unravelling is a giant step forwards, being less a collection of songs and more a cohesive album-length statement.