The Ending of an Age Remixes finds Austin’s Holy Wire curating an international lineup of post-punk futurists to reinterpret his sleek, frostbitten synth-pop with colder hands and heavier hearts. A companion piece to Holy Wire’s The Ending of an Age LP, this remix album transforms its polished melancholy into something rawer, stranger, and more nocturnal — a descent from shimmering loneliness into shadowy euphoria.

Holy Wire — the project of Alain Paradis — has always lived in the borderlands between new romanticism and modern despondency. His original songs borrow equally from the clean lines of early-’80s coldwave and the earnest pop sensibilities of acts like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. But here, that emotional clarity is blurred and fractured by a cadre of remixers from the bleeding edge of post-industrial and darkwave: Public Circuit, M!R!M, The KVB, and Johnny Dynamite, among others.

Each artist pulls a different thread from the fabric. Public Circuit injects EBM menace into the dancefloor, replacing melodic longing with seething intensity. M!R!M conjures a warped, almost devotional atmosphere — like hearing the original through a fogged mirror. The KVB strips things to their cold, propulsive essence, offering the most austere and hypnotic cut on the release. Johnny Dynamite, meanwhile, leans into the emotional core, making nostalgia feel like an affliction you don’t want to heal from.

These remixes aren’t just aesthetic variations — they’re emotional reframings. Where The Ending of an Age hinted at disconnection and longing, Remixes explores what comes after: the numbness, the displacement, the brief highs that flicker in the ruins. The city is still there, the bodies are still restless, but the shadows have grown longer, the synths sharper, the beats more unforgiving.

For fans of darkwave, minimal synth, and emotionally literate club music, The Ending of an Age Remixes is less a remix album than a mirrorball shattered and reassembled in the dark — jagged, beautiful, and still somehow full of light.