Immersion - What Is Lost Will Return

Colin Newman (Wire) and Malka Spigel (Minimal Compact) continue to push forward on What Is Lost Will Return, the latest album from their ever-evolving Immersion project. Blending hypnotic electronics, motorik rhythms, psychedelic textures and understated pop melodies, it's a record that embraces collaboration, curiosity and optimism without ever looking backwards. Richly atmospheric and quietly uplifting, it finds the duo sounding as inventive and vital as ever.

Defining the moment in sound and vision, Immersion are a snapshot of ‘the now’. Through constant reinvention, they have honed their sound into a startling present that references their past but refuses to live in it.

This perfect synthesis of their styles boldly creates a brave new world for core couple Colin Newman and Malka Spigel, along with satellite musicians Matt Schulz (Holy F*ck), whose drumming strongly features on many tracks, and Ed Chivers (AK/DK), who makes a guest appearance drumming on ‘Breaking Free, Diversity, Evolution’.

What Is Lost Will Return is the second ‘pure’ Immersion release in as many years and heralds their third UK tour since 2024. It follows 2025’s acclaimed WTF??, with the title reflecting the fact you can only say “What The F*ck??” so many times before looking beyond to see what endures.

With What Is Lost Will Return, the ever-productive ‘life and art partner’ duo present a reflective album of modular moods and stripped-down electronic psychedelia, leavened by a clipped guitar that you can nonetheless dance to, defying these chaotic times. It perfectly captures the yin and yang of the moment – or as Colin and Malka explain, “The emotion we feel the album invokes is a poignant mixture of joy and melancholy.”

“What Is Lost Will Return is an album of grooves, observational snapshots, hypnotic repetition, joyful creation, intoxicating melody and mystery, all threaded together by a fascination with new sounds and textures. It's both an underground gem and an album that bends pop into new shapes.”
John Robb, [June 2026, MCR]

Format: Vinyl LP
Label: SWIM
Genre: Alternative
Condition: New/Pre-Order
Catalogue Number: VWM61LP
Barcode: 5063176124111

Tracklist:
1 Nephology
2 Breaking Free, Diversity, Evolution
3 We Don't Need Your Validation
4 Megafauna
Vinyl B
5 What Is Lost Will Return
6 Childsplay
7 Radio signals
8 Frequencies & Echoes

Browse more pre-orders

If unsealed, we ship records with the LP outside the sleeve to avoid seam splits.