ASTREL K - The Foreign Department LP + 7" Death Metal Rope have been lauded by

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

combined with hypnotic rhythms

and is the band's most lyrical

Following their 2016 Posh Isolation debut

as well as a lyrical tenderness

ASTREL K - The Foreign Department LP + 7" Death Metal Rope have been lauded byExclusive 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.