Cruel Diagonals has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 15 September 2018. Cruel Diagonals's music has been featured on 13 episodes.

Cruel Diagonals is Los Angeles-based vocalist & field recordist Megan Mitchell.

Megan Mitchell composes unsettling, ethereal music under the alias, Cruel Diagonals. A jazz and classically trained vocalist, Mitchell performs and creates in numerous capacities. Some of her current endeavors include acting as proprietor of the left-of-field music index for women/trans/non-binary composers, Many Many Women, and researching, visiting and documenting places of abandoned industry around the Pacific Northwest and California with her field recorder and camera in tow. A selection of Mitchell’s…