Sternpost - unworld.afterpop LPMalmo, Sweden's Sternpost returns to Concentric Circles with unworld. afterpop. Following on the heels of the much loved Ulrika, the new album from Sternpost, AKA multi instrumentalist Petter Herbertsson, shimmers with immersive, cinematic arrangements that sound like they could have only come from a dream. Taking inspiration from Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout's "I Trawl the Megahertz" and "A Breath of Life" by Brazilian author Clarice Lispector,

often returning to Stockholm during the summer months to focus his efforts on his compositional practice

“It’s been an exhausting yet thrilling process being involved in the creation of this box set

it's not an elegy to worlds already gone

a dose of the medicine many of us look to music to deliver awaits you inside

the flipside is somewhat more abrasive and loud with its blown-out downer ambient that at times resembles a youngster Ashtray Navigations or something akin to Secret Abuse or late-era Yellow Swans but with its own weird identity

Soothed by foggy atmospheres and crackling punctuations

guitar and bass jumping over one another in games of leapfrog and Twister

Bald Eagle Over Food City is a blurry zoomed-in photograph of a national bird soaring over a grocery store parking lot

Priors is a frightening mix of breakneck melodies and cacophonous destruction

"To write these few lines

the spring is wound even tighter

That mistake—two colors