Lines of Flight

Hosts of Nowhere - 6th March.
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Lines of Flight return in 2026 with Hosts of Nowhere, the culmination of two years of intensive creative work and the much anticipated sophomore album from the Leeds based duo turned five piece. 

The album gathers together the full run of their recent double A sides, released across the past ten months, forming an emotional and thematic arc that charts the journey Helen Whale and Matthew Henderson have travelled as they confronted solastalgia, loss, environmental damage and the silencing of the natural world.

Across these songs, Lines of Flight have developed a distinctive voice that binds the intimate and personal to a vast, destabilised landscape. Their work captures both the crushing scale of planetary crisis and the piercing loneliness of irreversible harm, a world in which, as the band note, “there is no modern world.”
The double A side series, including Celilo Falls // Crush, Wilderness // Slow Violence, Open Plains // White Orchids, and Distant Warning // Practice and Ritual, saw the band expand their sound with layered synths, post punk basslines, pulsing rhythms and a sharpened emotional precision. 

These releases explored themes of isolation, environmental fragility, disconnection and the search for meaning in a world under strain, balancing visceral urgency with reflective, human lyrics.

Hosts of Nowhere builds on this evolution, gathering the emotional force and narrative threads of the double A sides into a cohesive whole, a document of a band tracing the shockwaves of ecological and existential uncertainty while refusing to look away.

Hosts of Nowhere arrives this March. There are exclusive vinyl bundles available, including limited hand carved editions and rare test pressings, all available to pre order. 

Listen to Edgelands here

Lines of Flight is the dreamwave synth-pop project of Matthew Henderson and Helen Whale, formed when the two met online during the first COVID lockdown. 

The duo began creating music remotely, exchanging ideas to navigate the unease of isolation, recording early material using only iPhones and headphones as microphones. 

Their name, inspired by Deleuze and Guattari, reflects the idea of pent‑up energy breaking through systems of constraint and moving unpredictably into new creative directions. 

Since 2020, Lines of Flight have crafted emotionally resonant, electro‑infused tracks drawing influence from Cocteau Twins, Depeche Mode and The Cure, balancing atmospheric introspection with driving synth-pop intensity. 

From DIY beginnings, the band has grown to achieve vinyl releases, festival slots and BBC airplay, building a reputation for evocative production and poetic lyricism. 

In 2023 the project expanded into a full five‑piece lineup, with: 

• Caris Shekell – bass
• Owen Radford-Lloyd – synths
• Tom Surman – drums

This evolution brought a raw New Wave energy, with post‑punk basslines and pulsing rhythms enriching their sound.

In May 2025, Lines of Flight launched an ambitious bi‑monthly series of five Double A‑side releases, continuing their exploration of grief, urgency and irreversible change through sweeping electronic textures and stark emotional contrasts.

The final instalment in the series, “Edgelands // Reprisal,” was released in February, 2026. 

All ten tracks from the Double A‑sides are collected on the new album Hosts of Nowhere, available on vinyl, CD and streaming. 

The band will perform material from all three releases as a five‑piece on 7 March at The Attic.

Hosts of Nowhere Artwork

Lines of Flight Press Photo