Penelope Trappes hosted a guest show on 30 August 2018. Penelope Trappes has been played over 30 times on NTS, first on 14 March 2017. Penelope Trappes's music has been featured on 30 episodes.

In 2016 Penelope Trappes of The Golden Filter/Lismore 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, which left space to expose a lot of emotional vulnerabilities about herself and the people closest to her.