Astrel - The Foreign Department (Black Vinyl) Hip Hop Music 'The Campfire Headphase' is closer

'The Campfire Headphase' is closer than ever to Boards of Canada's psychedelic roots and the mushroom bands that have influenced them

whose prolific output has inspired PACKS since their inception

On Kassie Krut’s self-produced

Billy Woodhouse and Elliot Dryden

this long-playing record

Astrel - The Foreign Department (Black Vinyl) Hip Hop Music 'The Campfire Headphase' is closerThe Foreign Department is the second album by Astrel K, the solo project of 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. Nonetheless, The Foreign Department feels like a rubicon