Debut album
from Charles Hayward’s new band, Abstract Concrete,
is out on 17 November 2023 via The state51
Conspiracy
We’re
very excited to announce new label signing, Abstract Concrete, the latest
project from UK underground icon Charles Hayward (This
Heat, Camberwell Now). Charles is joined by some of the most exciting and
forward-thinking young London players from a diversity of European underground
and experimental scenes: Agathe Max (Mésange, UKAEA),
Roberto Sassi (Snorkel,
Cardosanto), Yoni
Silver (Hyperion
Ensemble, Steve Noble) and Otto Willberg
(Yes Indeed,
Historically Fucked).
Combining sweet
chamber pop hooks with dubwise bass, plaintive Balearic guitar licks, and a
blend of folk and jazz-informed post punk, accompanied by lyrics that bend from
the political to depressed toilet cleaning apparatus, Abstract Concrete follows
a continuum of such melodic art school innovators as The Kinks,
Brian Eno, Robert Wyatt and Penguin
Cafe Orchestra, as well as Hayward’s own experimental post punk
past, all the while nodding to a childhood spent listening to folk and
pop.
The first pressing of the 12” vinyl is strictly limited to 500 copies. The innovative packaging sees the whole record housed in an O-card slipcase (a sleeve with two holes!), die-cut with a window. Each record includes a beautifully designed lyric book.
A Concrete Edition of only 51 copies is
also available, designed and made in the state51 Atelier. Each
record is encased in concrete with the Abstract Concrete ‘House’
logo hewn into its surface. The concrete must be broken to listen but for those
who don’t dare, a CD and lyric book is
included.
Their debut single, ‘This Echo’ is out now! Listen wherever you get your music and watch the official music video (made by Louise Mason and Yoni Silver)
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