Debut album from Charles Hayward’s new band, Abstract Concrete,
is out on 17 November 2023 via The state51 Conspiracy 

Photograhpy by Lewis Hayward
 

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) 

 

Stay up to date with upcoming announcements -
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_abstract_concrete_/