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<aside> Vertical Life is both a call to life and a hymn to laziness. The outside world is too loud, too fast. The bed becomes a shelter to dream of it safely. But to live vertically again and to become someone, we’ll have to rise soon. After playing c/o pop and The Great Escape, Astral Bakers unveil their second LP with this single, and open preorders at the same time.
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After 4 Zéniths and 1 Bercy supporting Clara Luciani, as well as the Inrocks Festival in France, Astral Bakers are unveiling the first single, “A Dog in a Manger”, from their second album upcoming this year. The album was recorded in the United States with Sam Evian (over 3M streams on their debut “The Whole Story”). Blending indie, pop rock, and soft grunge, each member now takes on a more defined role in this ever-evolving puzzle, where voices intertwine and roles shift—for the first time, drummer Zoé steps up as lead singer.
They will be performing this spring at c/o pop in Cologne, M4Music in Zurich, and The Great Escape in Brighton.
The expression "a dog in a manger" comes from a fable in which a dog jealously guards the hay in the stable, preventing other animals from eating it even though he has no use for it himself. It’s a way of illustrating how jealousy and stubbornness can make for a toxic mix. And yet, this is a radiant track, carried by a narrator who observes her character with distance and kindness, offering a barely veiled critique of the excesses of our society.
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As a collective, they all want to achieve the same things: epiphanies and presence, friendship and purity. Their founding experience is a concert at the Paris venue Le Consulat where they feel a pressing need to return to their roots together. To be reborn as water, fire, air and wind. To no longer lose themselves in the meanders of demos and production. To get back to basics. To shake themselves into action.
In muggy paneled rooms, they write their first tracks, rehearsing them again and again with no breaks or safety nets. There are no more demos or rerecording, only the interactive dialogue of two guitars in synergy (Sage and Nicolas), the bass consolidating the beat (Theodora), and the cocoon of drums enfolding the whole (Zoé).
And over it all, casual but focused voices rise. First Sage’s, powerful in its acceptance of supreme fragility, and then the others, merging into warm, confident backing vocals that are both precise and attentive to any passing flaws – imperfections that are the stuff of grace.