Penelope Trappes hosted a guest show on 30 August 2018. Penelope Trappes has been played on NTS in shows including Optimo, featured first on 14 March 2017. Songs played include The Hair Shirt, Low and Gone.

In 2016 Penelope Trappes of The Golden Filter rented out a small piano studio in East London for nearly the whole year and set out to write an introspective, trendless, and mostly beatless album. Inspired by albums from This Mortal Coil and Scott Walker, who also sought freedom to work outside of the expectations of their previous work, she limited the instrumentation to mostly an acoustic piano and effects,...