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Digital is released 25th April. Vinyl starts shipping 20th April.

When comparisons are made to Suicide, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Can, Gong, James Chance, you will know that Hastings’ Column258 tread the outer edges of formulaic rock+roll. They are a true experimental collective, combining spoken word + improvisation.

Column258 live shows combine mischievous art-rock with a psychedelic atmosphere Blending analogue and digital: bluenote brass, korgs, screaming vocoders and hypnotic guitars with inventive song cycles. Multi-vocal looping, poems written on the back of gas bills and electric pinecones, the band exemplifies the unexpected.

‘This is music as a force for change, seeking escape from the tyranny of conformist predictability.’ (David Erdos, International Times).

“If Bauhaus’ Peter Murphy fronted Future Days era Can” (Sean Kitchin, the Quietus)

There’s no such thing as a “final version” with Column258’s material, so when the band were offered free access to studio space above a disused tool hire station in an industrial out reach of town, they decided that what ever they left with, that would be the album. Sometimes it’s the restriction that enables the art. The studio space was full of equipment accumulated by the owner over decades of salvage. The vocal shield, prominent on the record cover, was originally used by The Who. Well rehearsed songs flowed between on the spot jams. Fine tuned lyrics butted against headlines read from the newspapers gaffa taped to the studio ceiling. Mic’s crackled and affects boards sparked.. This could easily have D I S A S T E R written all over it. But fortune favoured the foolish with the end recordings providing enough quality output to cover two albums.

Interloper (Workshop Sessions Vol 1) is late night listening, it’s for digesting and pondering if any of it was actually intentional or a simple glorious accident.

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Track List:-
13th Floor
Interloper
Boomerang Jones
Love Radio
Animatronic Man
Strangewayz
Crosby Goodnight
Drop Dead
Pimlico Mile