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

Ana Perrotte

only one Total Hell pops up when the band moniker is searched on Discogs

” or the explosive cacophony near the middle of “Many Mirrors

The opportunity to take creative control was one Francis relished

was striking their lyrics were no less provocative

breaking the previous sales record roughly ten times over

Narrated by The RZA

limited clear vinyl and a 5x7" box

Central to the hugely influential Paisley Underground scene of the early 1980s that spawned Green On Red

centered in Recife

‰ÛÏFor all their differences

found the band satirising British culture and wallowing in sleazy Seventies nostalgia