Formed in Taiwan, 聲子蟲 Bugs of Phonon has been making electronic-infused post-rock since May 2008. Comprising guitarists Chi-Ming Ko and Lu-Ming Lu, bassist Hsin-Feng Chiu and drummer Wei-Chun Gan, this four-piece creates massive auditory sculptures built from steady finger-picking and soaring feedback. Within these many layers lie carefully constructed scenes and narratives that take listeners on a journey through their mind.

The band’s third album, Long Haul (2025), unfolds over six interconnected tracks, told through the shifting voices of patients and companions and the perspectives of illness and fate. It traces the animal desperation after the onset of illness, the ghostly side effects of healing, the suspended breath of near-death moments—and finally, the fragile calm of seeming recovery, shrouded in a collective fear: the unspoken "long haul” syndrome—where love survives, but never unscathed. Behind every light, a shadow lingers. Darkness can return without warning. Only in the face of despair do we see that some changes cannot be undone. Yet in the ruins, we may come to understand love—and what it truly means to hold something dear.