TNAM.UK X JUST FOR FUN
TNAM.UK X JUST FOR FUN Music from/selected by/inspired by Just For Fun – with help from the TNAM team. Find our original interview from Pitchfork festival over on our Instagram! TNAM.UK Playlist {{ reviewsTotal }}{{ options.labels.singularReviewCountLabel }} {{ reviewsTotal }}{{ options.labels.pluralReviewCountLabel }} {{ options.labels.newReviewButton }} {{ userData.canReview.message }} You Might Also Like Recent Posts
TNAM X HEY, NOTHING
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IN CONVERSATION WITH WOUNDER
IN CONVERSATION WITH WOUNDER ARTIST PLAYLIST By Eli Callingham 21 February 2026 Introduce yourself. I’m Sonny, I write and record under the name ‘Wounder’. I’ve been making music a very long time – 10 years. Been using this name the last two years for more metal-adjacent stuff. How was the show tonight? The show was cathartic as fuck I cant lie. Life’s been annoying recently and this was a really good outlet. It was one of them ones where you kinda go into it and you’re just like expecting it to be fucking hell to be that vulnerable but no, I got a lot out of it. It was nourishing for sure. How would you describe your music to someone who hasn’t heard it before? I kinda grew up on UK Bass music my whole life. Both my parents were into Drum & Bass in the 90s, I was raised on that from a very young age and I think for me the main point in my music at the moment is combining that – growing up on metal music and bass music. It’s kind of finding that – this sounds really wanky – but just finding a bit of catharsis in obnoxiously loud bass lines and combining that with the scream. For me that’s a way I can kind of get shit off my chest. Big bass, fucking screaming, guitars and shit. It’s a weird mix of genres and it’s cathartic to me, and hopefully it will be to whoever listens to it. [Later over voice note he clarified this idea more] “The main crux of it was sort of like, we use it [bass] in a very functional way. It’s supposed to get people moving, which I love, but there’s often nothing emotional about its use. It can be very clinical, and just serves this one purpose. From a young age, in the same way that I’d find listening to metal music cathartic, I found a fat banger will achieve a similar form of catharsis. You know if you’re having a bad day and you need to fucking shed something, I always found that music was quite good for it. You know the whole sound spectrum, it’s the range that drives the most force, and that can be harnessed emotionally. I think sometimes the violence of hard bass can actually do a lot for the soul and for release.” What inspires you? Some days it will just be like “I gotta get something off my chest” and there’s no sonic reference, it’s purely instinctual. But at the same time, sometimes it will just be that I hear a piece of music and I’m like “I gotta offer something to the world that’s similar to this”. It’s a really big mix but I’d just say like living in general, just consuming music, experiencing things. Music to me is just an outlet, a way to get things out.something, I always found that music was quite good for it. You know the whole sound spectrum, it’s the range that drives the most force, and that can be harnessed emotionally. I think sometimes the violence of hard bass can actually do a lot for the soul and for release.” Are there any underground artists you’ve been listening to? I got three actually. The first one is a more local person, 300SkullsAndCounting. He’s in this band Mitsubishi Suicide as well, he’s fucking amazing. I love his shit. He’s got his own lane, he’s doing something incredibly unique and it’s worth checking out. There’s a black metal artist I’ve been really enjoying called Volahn. He released an album called Popol Vuh last year and to me that’s like the most horrifying metal music I’ve ever heard. It’s like if you put a cosmic horror story into sound, it’s just terrifying. I want to shout out this album called Handwriting by Khonnor. It’s from like 2004, you might need to fact check that [FACT CHECK: it is]. I think if you look at a lot of the twee, indie electronica that’s really picking up motion now, you can really find a starting point in this guy’s music. Are there any gig venues, spaces or event series you’re excited about at the moment? I’m very excited about this one gallery in Haggerston called Final Hot Desert. In 2023 we did a show together. It was for a really good artist called John Knight. It was a homage to how he grew up in the Cincinnati hardcore scene and he was bringing different materials he would see in those venues. I played there at the private view and that was still my favourite gig I’ve ever done. I’m not even an art guy, I like music above all art forms because of the accessibility and no matter who you are, no matter what education you’ve had, the privilege of, if you hear something raw you’re just going to connect to it and that’s something that other art forms can’t really achieve. But I will say that at Final Hot Desert there is a baseline you can always connect with, even for someone like me who doesn’t have the context of reading a bunch of smart people books. What’s a song everyone should add to their playlist? The Myth Arc by The Body. The Body are one of my all time biggest inspos, so much of my sound I owe to listening to their shit since I was a kid. That song specifically, that’s so inspiring to me. It’s just a really good fucking juxtapositon of abrasive texture and really gut wrenching female vocals and melody – it’s just a perfect mix of the macho noisy side but it’s also got a real feminine touch to it. I’m not a big fan of overly macho metal music. Any final words of wisdom? Something that helped me was detaching my ego from what I do and not seeing good music as a way to validate yourself. I think