Twenty-two years after quietly powering down, Portland synth-punk duo Point Line Plane are back — and their long-lost self-titled debut is finally getting the proper resurrection it always deserved. Out May 29th, 2026 via SKiN GRAFT Records, the album has been extensively restored, remastered, and released on vinyl and digital platforms for the very first time.

Between 2002 and 2005, vocalist/keyboardist Joshua Blanchard (Major Hex) and drummer Nathan Carson (Witch Mountain) played 150 shows across the U.S., honing a near-telepathic live rapport in bursts of destructively short 20-minute sets. Along the way they racked up two studio albums, the soundtrack for a documentary about haunted houses, and a healthy stack of comp tracks and singles — all while critics scrambled for the right metaphors to describe them. Comparisons to Liars, Ex-Models, and Lightning Bolt got tossed around, but the truth is Point Line Plane never quite fit anyone else’s box. They wrote noise music with pop hooks, and made “evil” sound like a genuine option again.

Originally co-released on CD by Xeroid Records and Sincere Brutality — and out of print for over two decades — the debut has been given the deluxe treatment. The first pressing arrives on 8-Bit Blue Vinyl with a double-sided collectible “Footlong” OBI featuring artwork from original designer E*Rock. A remastered CD edition includes an exclusive bonus track, “Descender 2003,” and an Ultimate Edition Bundle on Bandcamp packages the Blue Vinyl LP, the Footlong OBI, and the Digipack CD together at a discount — plus copies of their SKiN GRAFT-era sophomore LP “Smoke Signals.”

To celebrate, the band also unearthed the long-buried E*Rock-directed music video for opening track “Death Dance 2000,” originally created back in 2003 and now re-rendered in high definition. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Point+Line+Plane+Death+Dance+2000

The reunion is very much a live affair, too. Point Line Plane are back on the road with fellow recently reformed SKiN GRAFT labelmates Dazzling Killmen for a run of shows culminating in an appearance at Minneapolis’s Caterwaul Festival:

Fri 6/5/26 — Chicago, IL — Sleeping Village (with BIG’N!)
Sat 6/6/26 — Madison, WI — High Noon Saloon
Sun 6/7/26 — Minneapolis, MN — Caterwaul Fest

The press has always struggled — happily — to pin PLP down. Alternative Press called it “dance grooves, near-ambient soundscapes, synapse-frying noise hooliganism and near-prog workouts.” The Village Voice went with “post-industrial prog-drone indie-rock goth-punk techno-metal.” Fader summed it up more efficiently: “A soundtrack for urban paranoia.” All of it still tracks.

Whether you missed Point Line Plane the first time around or you’ve been guarding a beat-up CD-R since 2003, this reissue is the definitive way in. Grab the LP, CD, or Ultimate Edition Bundle at the SKiN GRAFT Bandcamp shop, and catch the duo tearing it up live before they derez all over again.