ASTREL K - The Foreign Department LP + 7" Death Metal Hands down the best demo

Hands down the best demo I ever got by an unknown band

Rope have been lauded by many of the pillars of the punk and hardcore community

El Atrache is one of the giants of Egyptian music with Oum Kalthoum

combined with hypnotic rhythms

Some of the songs are performed as elegant solos

ASTREL K - The Foreign Department LP + 7" Death Metal Hands down the best demoExclusive black vinyl w bonus 7" edition of 250 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 cathartic, elliptical songwriting are present in astrel k.