audiobooks - Astro Tough

Released 1st October 2021.

audiobooks threw absolutely everything at their 2018 debut album, Now! (in a minute), a hectic, head-spinning blast of freewheeling freak-pop genius. On its follow-up, Astro Tough, due for release 1 October 2021 via Heavenly Recordings, theyve somehow found a way to ramp things up even further, concentrating their chaotic energy and inherent weirdness into a record thats bigger, deeper and more powerful than even its predecessor.

The first album was a photograph of the beginnings of the project, recorded without any overall plan, Wrench explains. Astro Tough is more scripted, but a script that still allowed for lots of improvised scenes. There was more intention behind the songs, and a lot more refining. We werent precious about everything being spontaneous and a first take, like on the first record, even though some of it ended up being that. We made a lot more material for this record but chose the tracks th