Rest Your Wound On Mine
Releases on vinyl on Stoned to Death Records 24/4/2026
Producer, singer, and sound artist Never Sol releases her third full-length album Rest Your Wound On Mine. Arriving after the EP Tell The Sea I'm Coming Back and single LEON the record is the result of a gradual loosening of the forms and structures the artist had worked with up to now. The album, created over the course of the last five years, is being released under Pardubice-based label Stoned to Death.
A key role in the shift toward a more abstract, less song-based direction was played by improvisation during live modular-synth performances, which enabled deeper work with detail and sonic shaping. “I eventually returned to the song form because it feels natural to me. This time, however, it comes from a process in which I gradually broke the tracks down into looser abstraction and then reassembled them. Improvisation allowed me to respond to time, space, and the audience. I think it shaped the material into a form that held together,” says Never Sol. The album was created primarily using a Prophet 8 synthesizer, modular systems, additional synthesizers, and a vocal-effects chain.
Heavily processed vocals with a prominent presence of noise and distortion are accompanied by expanding synthesizer layers that enter each track with intensity transmuted into the album’s monumental sound. The central single Accord, recorded during a residency at Grey Nivas in upstate New York and featuring vocals by American musician Monika Khot (Nordra), intertwines sonic rawness with natural processes. The opening tracks PATTI and Swamp, created during an organ residency at Atrium Žižkov, build through gradual sonic escalation up to the brink of disintegration. The same approach shapes With All, recorded fully live in one take. The more ambient IHYD originated at the Vintage Synthesizer Museum in Los Angeles, where the artist worked with historic synthesizers. In contrast, the studio compositions Rose Garden and Naked Waters stand out through pronounced tonal shifts and dense sonic layers.
The music, production, synths and vocals were created by Sára Vondrášková. Additional production, mixing and mastering were handled by sound engineer Maurizio Baggio (collaborations with Boy Harsher, The Soft Moon). Drums were performed by German drummer Kian Kiesling (Lolita Terrorist Sounds), and Czech composer and performer Lukáš Palán (lflfsoap, Please The Trees, Role) contributed guitar on two tracks. The album was recorded primarily in Never sol’s attic studio in Laichter House; the final elements of the album captured the character of the Laichter House itself, specifically the room's echo can be heard all over the album as a psychogeographic memorandum.