{"product_id":"astro-tough","title":"Astro Tough","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Wrench and Evangeline Ling – aka audiobooks – threw absolutely everything at their 2018 debut album, \u003ci\u003eNow! (in a minute),\u003c\/i\u003e a hectic, head-spinning blast of freewheeling freak-pop genius. On its follow-up, \u003ci\u003eAstro Tough\u003c\/i\u003e via Heavenly Recordings, they’ve somehow found a way to ramp things up even further, concentrating their chaotic energy and inherent weirdness into a record that’s bigger, deeper and more powerful than even its predecessor. “The first album was a photograph of the beginnings of the project, recorded without any overall plan,” Wrench explains. \u003ci\u003e\"Astro Tough\u003c\/i\u003e is more scripted, but a script that still allowed for lots of improvised scenes. There was more intention behind the songs, and a lot more refining. We weren’t precious about everything being spontaneous and a first take, like on the first record, even though some of it ended up being that. We made a lot more material for this record, but chose the tracks that best worked together as an album.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMulti-instrumentalist and super-producer Wrench is as comfortable unleashing monolithic psychedelic wig-outs and heavy dub-driven monsters as he is crafting irresistible synth-pop bangers. Writer, vocalist and visual artist Ling is as chameleonic as she is charismatic, able to jump from detachment to rawness to aggression to tenderness to hilarity to toe-curling awkwardness, sometimes within the same song.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heavenly","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50427157414219,"sku":"1123484","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50427156889931,"sku":"1123483","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dc26ccca-f555-4b41-863d-8f7888e4ad06_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726822383","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/astro-tough","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}