On March 1, Test Centre Publications will release Museum of Loneliness, an LP of specially recorded readings by author and filmmaker Chris Petit.

Petit is probably best known for Radio On, his low-budget 1979 road movie about a radio DJ driving from London to Bristol to investigate the suicide of his brother. With its powerful black-and-white imagery, and a soundtrack featuring the likes of Kraftwerk and David Bowie, it’s now considered a key – if accidental – cinematic document of the British post-punk sensibility. As well as making films, Petit has written a number of novels, including the cult 1993 London noir, Robinson.

Side A of Museum of Loneliness features Petit reading from Robinson, The Hard Shoulder (2001) and The Passenger (2006), while on side B he tackles the more recent, fragmentary work that gives the LP its title. With the help of field recordings and soundtracks lifted from Petit’s films Asylum (2000) and Content (2010), the audio has been arranged and enhanced – “smeared and spored” – by Mordant Music.

The LP is being made available in an edition of 600 copies and is available for pre-order now. A special edition of 15 copies – each containing a previously unpublished Museum of Loneliness pamphlet with holographic material, an exclusive DVD of Content, and an art print by Emma Matthews – is also available.

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