On October 31, Minneapolis, Minnesota’s Spectres of Desire release their Incursions EP via Sweet Cheetah Records. Presave Incursions here.
Spectres of Desire is a solo electronic project that explores the sonic margins of synthpop with a DIY punk spirit. The project seethes with despair yet offers listeners a beacon of earnestness in a world full of snake oil salesmen. Themes of loss, abandonment, yearning, and reclamation of the self-permeate the work.
“This release is the first foray I’ve made into solo work and it makes me feel very vulnerable, so much more than in the past with full bands,” he says. “I went in wanting to engage with the music as authentically as possible, and while what came out is not as brooding or dark as I had hoped for, it most definitely feels like my voice throughout. There’s an intense personal connection to every verse, but I try to present it in a way that allows the listener to feel how it imprints into their experience. When it all comes down to it, we’re all capable of being massive fuckups and we have to learn how to live with and love ourselves and the others around us. I’d like to think that Incursions speaks to that.”
The live set presents music as a dialectic, where a base of repurposed hardware colors and conditions the ephemeral superstructure of software synthesizers. Spectres of Desire offers a glimmer of hope amidst a collapsing world.
Catch Spectres of Desire live:
Friday, October 31, 2025, at Memory Lanes, Minneapolis, Minnesota (EP Release Show)
Friday, November 21, 2025, at The Widows Ball Fest, Mankato, Minnesota
Friday, December 12, 2025, at 331 Club, Minneapolis, Minnesota w/ Toilet Rats and Night Audit
Photo courtesy of Spectres of Desire.
