Astrel K - The Foreign DepartmentBut into my miserable brain, always concerned with looking for noon at two oclock" Charles Baudelaire (1869) The Foreign Department is the second album by Astrel K, the solo project helmed by Stockholm based British ex pat, Rhys Edwards. Those already familiar with Edwards work will likely know him for fronting the cultishly great Ulrika Spacek, and given he operates as the principal songwriter in both projects, much of the same hallmarks of his

William Basinski’s reputation as the foremost producer of profound meditations on death and decay has long been established

In “Granite Kiss

to cut a brand-new half-speed master and let the music speak for itself

as well as a surprise "phantom" encore where Everett's dream of playing the massive Albert Hall pipe organ for some spooky Eels classics finally comes true

the synergy of two devout tastemakers building a shrine to inner peace and outward pleasure

Available on limited neon yellow vinyl (500 copies)

sad and disillusioned and fighting drug addiction

is Devotional Music

and whilst the band were preoccupied with other ventures Black Angel Drifter would bide its time

looking beautiful and smooth in 300gsm card

via Trouble In Mind

Gone were the ripped-up jeans and flannels of yore