Premiere: Astral Bakers Share New Observe “Shelter”

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Sep 06, 2023

By Caleb Campbell

Pictures by Mattieu Torres

Astral Bakers are a brand new French indie quartet from Theodora, Nico Lockhart, Zoé Hochber, and Sage (previously of the indie trio Revolver). The 4 members have all collaborated on data and excursions over time, however the band’s genesis got here at a live performance at le Consulat. After the present, the band went into the studio and commenced writing their first tracks collectively, trying to seize the natural factor and collective presence they felt onstage.

The band debuted earlier this summer time with their first observe, “One Extra,” and at the moment they’re again with one other new track, “Shelter,” premiering with Below the Radar.

Whereas the band’s earlier single discovered them referencing again to bands like Huge Thief and Supertramp, “Shelter” takes on a distinct presence, leaving the band awash in buzzing layers of guitar and dreamy melodicism. What unites each tracks is the band’s vitality and expansive sonics. Astral Bakers know easy methods to raise a track skyward and so they achieve this to standout impact on “Shelter,” with Sage’s vocals anchoring the observe whereas the guitars liftoff right into a floating reverie. In the meantime, the lyrics match the gauzy, sun-lit vibe of the observe with an equally romantic factor: “And possibly it’s / Not how we pictured the fact, but it surely’s no imaginative and prescient it’s actuality / Now do you see / And if we’re collectively for eternity / Let’s flip the heavens into a celebration.”

The band says of the observe, “‘Shelter’ is a track that we composed and recorded fairly quick. We had been engaged on different tracks on the studio and located the primary riff throughout a break. Then all the pieces got here up very easily, virtually effortlessly, as if we already knew the track. Ambroise went again residence and the morning after he informed us: I wrote some lyrics, I feel it’s going to match. And that was it. It’s a track about seeing your personal life from a brand new perspective. It’s changing into conscious of the prospect you’ve gotten whenever you thought all the pieces was going incorrect or when your life doesn’t flip up as you’ll have anticipated. It’s discovering a shelter within the arms of the one you’re keen on and making an attempt to make issues pretty much as good as they are often.”

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