400 Lonely Things

400 Lonely Things is the sample-based project of the musician Craig Varian, rooted in recordings he began making with Jonathan McCall in the late 1980s. The name first appeared on a self-titled vinyl album in 2003. The music is built from loops of film audio, obscure records and drones, slow and melancholic, somewhere between ambient, hauntology and psychedelia. Since McCall's death, Varian has continued the project alone. Varian has lived in Florida, North Carolina and Wisconsin, and he ran his own label, Pimalia.