Alastor - Onwards & Downwards

Alastor - Onwards & DownwardsExcelsior! It's the hail of yore that one should go ever onward and upward. And so, fittingly Onwards And Downwards is the occultist Swedish band Alastor's clever call to arms and also a reflection of the collective dark state of mind these days. "If our last album Slave To The Grave were about death, this record is more about madness," says guitarist Hampus Sandell. "You can look at the whole record as one person's gradual slip into insanity. An

it follows a road that was paved by the early days of 4AD and it's strange

with songwriting beginning in 2014

which took the better part of 7 years to crystallize

this album captures the essence of Sanz's early career

And now I can't stop dancing

electric guitar and keyboards on his seventh and most potent recording as a leader to date

This meeting of two great reggae artists is reissued on LP for the very first time

VA duo Timbaland & Magoo

I was in the imaginative period where you don't have the burdens of adulthood yet

drums and melodious and heady vocals

Limited olive green & red splatter colored vinyl

The album ends by "Via Condotti" performed as a duet with Léonard Lasry