CDs for Peace Medal by Dahjyn are here and shipping imminently.
Packshots by @annaarrobas
Artwork by @jesseosbornelanthier
Support the release by grabbing a copy via our Bandcamp page. Link in bio.
Thank you @bandcamp for including Peace Medal amongst your New and Notable this weekend.
Thanks to everyone who has given it a spin. CDs coming soon. Hugs and kisses.
Dahjyn — Peace Medal
Out now on Éditions Appærent [APP016]
Digital / CD available now
Links in bio
We’re very proud to finally release Peace Medal in full today. Please listen, share, purchase, support.
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On Peace Medal, the horizon is defined by the heat of the aftermath. Dahjyn (Dan Ahrendt) presents a topography of scorched Americana and industrial erosion where the tempo slows to a sedimentary drag, mimicking the physical sensation of walking through deep ash. Collaborators Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Asaël Richard-Robitaille construct a fidelity that feels deliberately compromised—marked by the texture of rust and tensile failure.
It is a token of survival that refuses to shine, reflecting a world where “peace” is simply the moment violence solidifies into memory. Merging cultural displacement with intense physical trauma, Ahrendt fuses songwriting, electronic experimentation, and doom of both guttural and beatific origins into a grand sonic calamity. It is a work suspended between comfort and anger: a “blanket to brawl in” for any who have lost a world, or those still searching for theirs.
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Produced by Dan Ahrendt & Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Performed, recorded and arranged by Dan Ahrendt
Additional arrangements by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier and Asaël Richard-Robitaille (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8)
Electronics, vocals, programming and guitar by Dan Ahrendt
Additional electronics by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier (tracks 2, 5, 8) and Asaël Richard-Robitaille (tracks 1, 4, 6, 7)
Percussion by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier (track 8)
Guitar by Asaël Richard-Robitaille (track 7)
Drums by Olivier Fairfield (tracks 2, 3, 7), recorded by Alex Crow, Pierre Guerineau & Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Mixed and mastered by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Artwork, design and illustrations by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Photo of Dahjyn by Eleanor Petry
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GROUP CRITIQUE FIGHT CLUB
PRESENTS MORE MUSIC FROM LEFT FIELD HOSTED AT THE PREMIERE VENUE IN THE POWER KINGDOM OF THE HUDSON VALLEY REGION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
DAHJYN @dahjyn
INDUSTRIAL DOOM CROON
DR. S+M @doctor_snm
MINIMALIST HARDWARE IMPROVISATION
EVAN LINDORFF-ELLERY @noticerecordings
FEEDBACK AND MOVEMENT
NOAH KARDOS-FEIN @n_k_f
SHAPESHIFTING HAPPY ACCIDENTS FOR GUITAR AND ELECTRONICS
REASON & RUCKUS POUGHKEEPSIE NY
THURSDAY APRIL 16TH
$10-20 SLIDING SCALE 8 PM
Non Verbal Communications presents ambient noise night with 2 out of town guests/////
IDLEFON Iranian Canadian musician Hesam Ohadi based out of Calgary AB playing ambient industrial alongside shoegazey vocals
ANGEL OF ENTRAILS coming from Richmond VA for their NYC debut blessing us with ethereal freeform harsh noise magic
DAHJYN promoting their new album with otherworldly dark industrial improvisations
Sara Brodsky & Bookworms doing chaotic modulation based ambient drone rituals throughout the night.
This Friday 7pm at the Hart Bar Garage💿
Come celebrate spring and drone out
‘Behead’ is the second single off of Dahjyn’s upcoming ‘Peace Medal’ album.
Behead starts appropriately as a greeting, an introduction to a callous life born by cold nylon strings and the industrial slog. At first, Dan’s voice takes center stage inviting an audience to ponder and participate in the worst systems the world has to offer, before offering a warning, “Don’t listen, don’t let them take your head.” The bottom drops out, gravity passing through a sinkhole of gemlike arpeggios and percussive acceleration. The forever distant synth pads serve as a pillow for survival and echoes of purgatorial wonder in equal measure, positing how at rest the head is and how much of it is already gone.
Link in bio, preorder digital or physical via Bandcamp or stream via evil streaming services.
Produced by Dan Ahrendt & Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Performed, recorded and arranged by Dan Ahrendt
Electronics, vocals, programming and guitar by Dan Ahrendt
Additional electronics by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Mixed and mastered by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Artwork, design and illustrations by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Photo of Dahjyn by Eleanor Petry
Dahjyn — Talk Like A Prison
Announcing the first single from the forthcoming album Peace Medal out 26 March 2026
Digital / CD
Layered howls describe the inhuman world of the imprisoned, and the inevitable end of those who profit from it.
✺ links to listen and purchase in bio
Produced by Dan Ahrendt & Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Performed, recorded and arranged by Dan Ahrendt
Additional arrangements
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Asaël Richard-Robitaille
Electronics, vocals, programming and guitar
Dan Ahrendt
Additional electronics
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Drums
Olivier Fairfield
Drums recorded by
Alex Crow
Pierre Guerineau
Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Mixed and mastered by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Artwork by Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
Photo by Eleanor Petry