Hong Kong noise provocateurs DAVID BORING return after seven years with Liminal Beings and Their Echoes, out 12 January 2026 via Damnably (UK) and UN.TOMORROW (HK). A stark fusion of noise-rock, no-wave, and electronic body music, the album channels personal loss, political unrest, and pandemic limbo into a compelling sonic statement. Available on gatefold double LP, bespoke CD, and digital formats.
After seven years of profound global and personal shifts, experimental noise provocateurs DAVID BORING return with monumental second album, Liminal Beings and Their Echoes, the album is a claustrophobic, compelling fusion of noise-rock aggression, no-wave discordance, and the cold sterile pulse of electronic body music, forged in the crucible of personal loss, political turmoil, and pandemic limbo. Set for release on 12 January 2026, via Damnably (UK) with support from UN.TOMORROW (HK). The album will be available on gatefold-sleeved double LP, bespoke album CD and digitally.
Emerging from a period of upheaval, the album’s creation became a compulsive artistic necessity. For Janice, the passing of her partner evolved from a crippling loss into a spark for her to begin to investigate possible forms of artistic portrayal of big abstract experiences. Jason’s technical expansion into electronics and production opened entirely new sonic pathways, letting textures, noise, and rhythm guide the evolution of the band’s sound. Yip went into creative sprees, unleashing raw, urgent ideas that the rest of the band pulled apart, experimented with, and rebuilt. The result is their most immersive work yet—anxiety made rhythmic, despair made guttural, and rebellion made kinetic.
Building on the signature tension of their acclaimed debut, Unnatural Objects and Their Humans (2017), Liminal Beings expands its architecture. It presents harsh electronic interventions, curated atmospherics, and advanced experimental songwriting where brutality leverages tenderness, and terror meets intricacy. This is not an album of nostalgia, but a philosophical echo of the trauma-survival-healing cycle, offering crushingly raw introspection with equal measures of nihilism and hope.
The journey begins with the foreboding overture Chapter Ø, and unfolds through two singles: Nancy Nightmare (Single #1 released 31 October, 2025), a first-person descent into a decaying psyche, tracing a transformative path from horror to bliss, and Jenny Rotten (Single #2 released 21 November 2025), a portrait of glitching isolation, trapped in a cycle of torturous introspection.
The tracklist then voyages from the surrendering embrace of Earth Song, the whispered tenderness of Visit Me (Cabin Song), the tortured, dignified determination of Martyr#1 (Single #3 released 15 December, 2025), to the screamed yearning of Cabin Song’s manic sibling, Visit Me (Body Song). It navigates the coded despair of Machine #4 and the regret-drenched monologue of Still/Life culminating in a Dantean ascent in Midnight Gospel. The album closes with Coda Lamella, a cold, academic hypothesis framing the entire work as a clinical manifesto.
Liminal Beings and Their Humans invites listeners into a tightly structured, emotionally charged soundscape—provoking dystopian euphoria, soothing dissociation, and cathartic rage. It is DAVID BORING, amplified.
About DAVID BORING:
Since 2013, Hong Kong’s DAVID BORING has forged a distinct sound defined by the tension between raw dissonance and meticulous control, blending punk urgency with intricate design. Their fiercely philosophical debut, Unnatural Objects and Their Humans (2017), established them as essential voices, a status amplified by features on Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (2018) and the first performance by a Hong Kong band at SXSW in 2019, proving their chaos had a global resonance. In 2020, they joined UK indie label Damnably’s roster, reissuing their debut on vinyl. Through it all, the band continues to craft immersive, visceral soundscapes that dissect alienation and survival, standing as one of the city’s most provocative and unflinching artistic forces.
DAVID BORING is:
Janice (Laujan) – vocalist
Jason – synth/keyboard
Dave – guitar
Gavin (Yip) – guitar
Gut – drums