The album 'Litchfield' by Spectrical is now featuring on M.P.R Ambient.
Release date 16 May 2026
Pre-order from 2 May 2026
'Litchfield' is a quietly immersive album shaped by the lush, expansive wilderness of Australia’s Northern Territory. Inspired by time spent walking, swimming, and listening within Litchfield National Park and its surrounds, Spectrical weaves field recordings of birds, insects, bats, flowing water, and trees in the wind into gently unfolding compositions. These environmental fragments were first transferred to cassette tape, becoming the textural core of the record. Recorded with analogue synthesizer, electric guitar, kalimba, glockenspiel, modular electronics, and tape-based processes, Litchfield drifts between documentation and abstraction; suspended between field and studio, where environment and composition converge.
Music by Timothy Allen
Artwork by Elise Wilson
Photography and layout by Timothy Allen
Professionally duplicated cassette tape with printed shell and double-sided j-card. Limited to 50 copies.
Order Link - https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com/album/litchfield
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Artist Bio
Timothy Allen, aka Spectrical, is an ambient, drone and experimental artist and founder of Perceptual Tapes based in nipaluna, lutruwita / Hobart, Tasmania. He creates soundscapes both dissonant and dreamy, with a focus on atmosphere, texture and experimentation.
Tim began playing music early in life, starting with the violin at five years of age and picking up the guitar in his teens. He began releasing music as Spectrical in 2012 with releases on netlabels Test Tube and CONV. These works focused on experimental sound design and recording techniques with the use of a contact mic and induction coil pickup, respectively. His latter work incorporates acoustic instruments, tape recordings, analogue and modular synths, field recordings and digital processing.
Spectrical’s music has attracted attention from publications including Igloo Mag, First Impressions (from the Longform Editions team), Prism Reviews, Avant Music News and ATTN:Magazine. His music has been played on radio stations including Edge Radio (Hobart), RTRFM (Perth), FBi Radio (Sydney), KCXI 91.3 (Tucson) and Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg).
Links:
Bandcamp - Perceptual Tapes
Instagram - Spectrical, Perceptual Tapes
BlueSky - Spectrical, Perceptual Tapes
Website - https://www.perceptualtapes.com/spectrical