Ringmaster Review - "There's a raw feel of XTC to the song at times, refreshing!"
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/astral-cloud-ashes-too-close-to-the-noise-floor/

Abduction Radiation Review - "Some serious math rock vibes" 
http://abductionradiation.tumblr.com/post/140355946564/if-the-last-track-was-too-mellow-for-you-bump-up

LyRiCs:
I’m shooting straight, 
I left the planet feeling great, 
Like the first Russian dog in space, 
My little doggie face, 
I want to rattle the side plates. 
And all the scientists agree, 
Reassuring me on the wireless, 
As I cruise past Vanguard 3. 
And we both wish, 
We kept it down, 
‘cause we were too close. 

It’s unavoidable, 
It’s incredible and untrue, 
The praxis of the situation, 
The premise that I didn’t come alone, 
The preface that nobody knows, 
Is it believable, 
Incredible or untrue? 
We were too close. 

In a first world bed, 
Unique neurosis in my head, 
I’m worried about my Bitcoin, 
That’s right I’m crypto-paranoid, 
And that’s why I keep my cellphone tied, 
And I can’t let loved ones out my sight, 
I can’t relax or even take a drive, 
I’ve got the CIA all on my mind, 
These jackals follow me and quote my life.

Track is taken from 'Too Close to the Noise Floor' released July 11, 2016 
Written, Performed, Recorded by : Astral Cloud Ashes 
Mixed By : Astral Cloud Ashes
Mastered : Tim Turan

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Too Close To The Noise Floor

"I must have subconsciously fallen in love with this song because on subsequent listens I'm digging it more and more." Jason Grishkoff, Indie Shuffle:
 http://www.indieshuffle.com/astral-cloud-ashes-flashback/

In the corridor, 
It's the strangest thing, 
Along the corner where the pictures hang, 
Around the top there, 
Where the window swings, 
I take you out the back and you can show me love. 
I remember how it felt when we moved here, 
I recall it like a painting of a picture, 
On the staircase, 
Looking at your lost face, 
You're a sculpture, 
You're a sculpture. 

Now on the morning walk to work, 
I know exactly where to go, 
I know exactly where to cross, 
And where I'll end up, 
And where I'll sit, 
I know I've grown to love the ordinary, 
Take pleasure in security, 
I welcome full exactity, 
I need the regularity, 
And I just relax, 
There's no ideals, 
No preferences, 
No set tracks, 
I don't need to follow, 
I don't care to lead, 
Full satisfaction guaranteed, 
As the leaves of my life fall down, 
I would go the distance, 
Between here and Cape Town. 

I would go the distance, If I needed, 
I would go the distance, If I needed, 
I would give my lifetime, if you need it.

DOWNLOAD track here (it's free!) :  https://astralcloudashes.bandcamp.com/track/flashback-single-mix

Written, Performed, Recorded, and Produced by Astral Cloud Ashes.
Mixed by Ed Hartwell, Soho Studios, London. 
Mastered by Tim Turan @ Turan Audio, Oxford.

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Flashback

"Grateful For the Ghost in Our House is the story of getting older, and being haunted by the ghosts of your past"  full interview with Karla Harris here :
http://www.whenthehornblows.com/2016/09/the-band-explains-astral-cloud-ashes-grateful.html

Grateful music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuDyeSuuQ8g

Over lifetimes, there are designs, 
And if I left it to you, would you visit sometimes? 
And now you’re surely inclined, 
I don’t believe you were so unkind, 
What is it that stops you? 
Like a glowing lampshade in the dark, 
I’m listening and burning regardless, 
This isn’t easy, but this is my requiem, 
I know where the fence is, 
But I’d turn against my senses. 

If I believe, Always, a tempting glance at me 
And I’ll be the alibi you wanted, a vehicle for asking, And that’s all you get from us, Always 
Attempted apathy 
Your landline, your cards keys and numbers 
I’ll process your details 
And we’ll be in touch next time. 
And all of the signs, after more red wine, 
I was counting on you not to read between my lines, 
But now you’re asking it’s fine. 
And all your actions are so in line, 
So different from last year. 
Like the orphan of an unloved child, 
Like a tornado spinning right out of time, 
But a diligent wife 
And an honest right mind 
And yes it is true this is what I have wanted 
A place I belong 
And a place I am wanted 
And a house that’s not haunted. 

Always, a tempting glance at me 
I’ll be the alibi you wanted, a vehicle for asking, And that’s all you get from us, Always 
Attempted apathy, Your landline your cards keys and numbers 
I’ll process your details And we’ll be in touch next time. 

I’ll Still stay 
You’re not the enemy 
I know that you’re trying 
Believe me, 
I see you you’re welcome 
I feel bad because this is your home.


Track is taken from 'Too Close to the Noise Floor' released July 11, 2016 
Written, Performed, Recorded by : Astral Cloud Ashes 
Mixed By : Astral Cloud Ashes
Mastered : Tim Turan

stream the Debut Album "Too Close to the Noise Floor" free here : 
https://astralcloudashes.bandcamp.com/

Too Close to the Noise Floor

Grateful For The Ghost In Our House

Moonphase Bloom was played on BBC Radio 1 with Huw Stephens in late Aug 2017

"ACA is back with a new single, and we think it’s safe to call it their best song yet.. We really can’t wait for this band to catch on with the masses so we have more people to talk to about their sweet, sweet sounds." Substream Magazine
https://substreammagazine.com/2017/07/astral-cloud-ashes-moonphase-bloom/

"If you’re looking for a clean sounding post-emo track, Astral Cloud Ashes bring it on Moonphase Bloom.”  BuffaBlog  buffablog.com/astral-cloud-ashes-moonphase-bloom

"Outstanding indie rock sound" Velvety blog

"This philosophy of self-surrounding and gaining from other artists to improve and vary the artistic product for good can add a variety of flavor to a musician’s ensemble. Antony allows this without compromising his own sound"
 - Apartment 113 Studios
https://apt113.org/2017/07/21/music-review-new-single-from-astral-cloud-ashes/


'Moonphase Bloom' is taken from the forthcoming Astral Cloud Ashes album in 2017.

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Well let's go straight down the rat race
you always knew my favourite place of hiding
and dreaming
you’re steaming cause you don't think there's a way 

You're steaming cause you don't tell the story straight 
look just at your face 

this day, this phase
this phrasing of a maze 
this moonphase..
hey you hold on for one more day
disconnect your devices 
unplug the wires
all we have are feelings 
hey you, you could be the one
but all we want to do is disconnect from 
everyone that ever was

can we stay forever young?
you can hold the back door, I got the front 
and nobody up the stairs
free movie sites 
say something like 
maybe just stick around
I could keep you for the weekend baby

I don't mean to freak you out! 
I was like a virus you were like a medicine
I didn't have to go out there 
why do I have to be addicted to your love?

well lead us back to the old place, nobody recognises us inside...

well let's go straight down the rat race
you always knew my favourite place of hiding 
and dreaming 
you're steaming cause you don't think there's a way

you're steaming cause you don't know the story
or these memories or these restless nights

I would wake up sweating and scared and honestly I don't know why 
I am not forgetting I think about you all the time
if you knew that you were leaving why did you not say it?
goodbye..

can we stay forever young?
chicken hold the back door I got the front 
and nobody’s up the stairs 

can we stay forever young?
you can hold the back door, I got the front 
and nobody up the stairs
free movie sites 
say something like 
maybe just stick around 
I could keep you for the weekend baby
I could keep you for the weekend yeah

I don't mean to freak you out!
I was like a virus you were like a medicine
somewhere up the stairs in a cabinet 
unexplained absence and missing tablets
now I have to call everyone
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Written and Performed by:    Astral Cloud Ashes    
feat. backing vocals by:    James Elliott Field
Mixed by:     James Elliott Field     
Mastered:     Tim Turan                    

Artwork by:   Alexey Chistikov

Moonphase Bloom

"Jersey’s Astral Cloud Ashes may be the best thing to come from this Channel Island since its potatoes.."  -YorkCalling: 
https://yorkcalling.co.uk/2018/01/20/discovery-astral-cloud-ashes/

"With the recent announcement of the release of second album Dear Absentee Creator early 2018, British alternative rock outfit Astral Cloud Ashes have provided a highly flavoursome teaser with new single Dallas Knows the Reason. The liveliest slice of rapacious rock ‘n’ roll from the band yet.." 
Ringmaster Review - full article:
https://ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/astral-cloud-ashes-dallas-knows-the-reason/


'Dallas Knows the Reason'  is the second song to be released from the forthcoming new album from Astral Cloud Ashes titled "Dear Absentee Creator" (due early 2018)

released 2/Dec/2017 
All Music and Words by    :                     Antony Walker
Written Recorded and Produced by:      Antony Walker            
Mixed by                 :                                  Byron Hosking          
Mastered by          :                                 Tim Turan  
artwork                    :                                Alexey Chistikov

Bandcamp:
https://astralcloudashes.bandcamp.com/

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/AstralCloudAsh

Insta: 
https://www.instagram.com/astral_cloud_ashes/

Facebook:
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Standing out there with your shot gun girl you're shooting up the night, 
Dallas Knows the Reason, Dallas Knows the Reason 
standing out there with your shot gun girl you're shooting it up alight, 
Dallas Knows the Reason, Dallas Knows the Reason

And now I cannot quite decide if you were serious when you told me you were on your way around to mine, why am I staring at a blank computer terminal again on my Sunday to avoid your call?

I'm not even a massive fan of human interaction lately and that's not your fault at all.

Standing out there with your shot gun girl you're shooting it up alight,
you could be the reason, you could be the reason
yeah tin metal cans gonna fly,
you could be the reason, you could be the reason

It's not a mystery when we are destined for decline that you would feel so sad, the existential burden everybody dies. I'm waiting for you. I can't afford you, and moving into your house it was the hardest thing.

I'm not even a massive fan of basic conversation lately and that's not your fault

Standing out there with your shot gun girl you're shooting it up alight,
you could be the reason, you could be the reason
yeah tin metal cans gonna fly,
you could be the reason, you could be the reason

And I'm sure it's deliberately designed I slept on your floor on the last day of 1999.
And a mad social contract that we never signed, or saw or realised was planned for our minds..

Well like any of that mattered anyway, 
you're home 
were renegades 
in our minds.

I'm not done yet, just understand 
that you were watching a broken man 
I did my time
and had I been like you I might have shook that hand,
I could've took your paycheque in your bank wasteland, 
and I could've built my castle on your shifting sands 
and hanged.


Song DOWNLOAD LINKS : 

Bandcamp:  https://astralcloudashes.bandcamp.com/track/dallas-knows-the-reason

Spotify:  http://spoti.fi/2niog5c
iTunes:   http://apple.co/2iY8Ka2
Apple Music:  http://apple.co/2Aczldg
Google Play:  http://bit.ly/2zzTs1K



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https://substreammagazine.com/2017/07...
http://www.buffablog.com/astral-cloud...
https://apt113.org/2017/07/21/music-r...
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Dear Absentee Creator

Dallas Knows the Reason

well is our connection really alright? 
we talk about this on our long drives 
and you’re no actress 
but you know how to get to me 
you know I’m not great at goodbyes 

you could write it in a thank you card 
find out just what kind of great you are 
do we even have a right to love 
are we going? 

you could write it in a thank you card 
send a copy if its not too hard 
almost close enough to break your heart 
are we going? 
Kimobetsu Love 
It’s what it does to you that makes it feel so strong 

you’re mad at your phone again 
and the snow is falling so much more up here 
and if you gotta run 
I guess you gotta run 
I guess you gotta run sometimes 
from your problems 
or your whole life 

It’s your second year 
your friends have disappeared 
I guess they had to go sometime 

and if you gotta run 
I guess you gotta run 
I guess you gotta run sometimes 
I know you’re gunna run you always run away 
from your problems 
and your whole damn life 

you could write it in a thank you card 
find out just what kind of grateful you are 
do we even have a right to love 
are we going? 

you could write it in a thank you card 
find out just what kind of great you are 
do we even have a right to love? no! 
are we going? 

you should write it in your own damn words 
just a message pen, paper, start. 
even though its gonna wreck your heart 
just do it Kimobetsu, 
Love has got you standing at the alter now 
its what it does to you that makes it feel so strong 
Kimobetsu Love 

We control disease 
Our lobbyists agree 
It’s such easy money 
So shut your mouth immediately

all music and words: Antony Walker
(except for Piano and some backing vocals by James Elliott Field) 
mixed by: James Elliott Field  - Old Wheelwrights Studio (Devon) 
mastered by: Tim Turan - Turan Audio (Oxford)

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Kimobetsu Love

let it out 
all your favourite songs that are just pure classics now 
all those headstock names both of us would rave about 
and that two week holiday i couldn’t shut up about 
i’m calling.. 
but all i have’s your last reply 

You were like the sister I never had 
you were like the weight of all the ocean 
you were like the tidal wave rolling back 
gushing me under 

you’re the falling star 
you’re the checkerboard 
trust this emotion 
you’re the morning air 
thermodynamic rising 
with the ashes of the band 

and we could speak in tongues 
i’ll make it up again 
tabletop spinning glass amongst ringing ears 
it’s the world i fear 

You were like the sister I never had 
you were like the weight of all the ocean 
you were like the tidal wave rolling back 
gushing me underneath 
You were like the sister I never had 
you were like the weight of all the ocean 
you were like the tidal wave rolling back 
gushing me under 

you’re the falling star 
you’re the checkerboard 
unstacked emotion 
you’re the avatar 
thermodynamic rising 
with the ashes of us all 
some things they never die

all music and words: Antony Walker
mixed by: Fuzz - RADAR Sound Services (Hampton) 
mastered by: Tim Turan - Turan Audio (Oxford)

Gush

Satoshi Nakamoto vs Unyielding Desire for BAU (November Hardfork remix)

News Anchor Breaks Rank

Watch the talk show numb yourself numb yourself
Watch the talk show numb yourself numb yourself

Put your doubts in a box
take a blue pill and a walk
just pretend that you never saw anything at all
Put your doubts in a box
take a blue pill and a long walk

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all music and words by Antony Walker
Recorded in Jersey @ Mapley St.
Mixed by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)
Mastered by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)

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In Ruans

don’t you get it
don’t you get it
move out to New York
move out to New York
so committed
but its like you don’t get it
get out the big wheels
steppin’ on my heels
don’t you get it
don’t you get it
get out to New York

on the way to Benihana
we forgot about the next 3 years
I had to halt the llama
‘cause Gavin always rings my phone
his messages would just read like tomes
books on the border
something on the statist plan
is it a mental disorder..
that I can hear a scared Ayn Rand?
she goes round, round, round.

get out to New York
pull out the pitchforks
get out to New York

get out to New York
get out to New York
just move there

you said you had never been to New York
you’ve never been there
you added that you don’t go out, so what? who cares.
books and the culture,
no better than mine
if that’s what love is now

and now I’m in Jackson
kicking it with these ideals

get out to New York
get out to New York
big move 
pack and go 

get out to New York
get out to New York
move there
live your lives there 

move out to New York
move out soon
live there,
raise your kids there.


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all music and words by Antony Walker
Recorded in Jersey @ Mapley St.
Mixed by Chris Hughes  @ Oscillate Recordings (Cheshire)
Mastered by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)

Get out to New York

I’ll look in the mirror for one entire week
and i took the old you to just get something to drink
you said how much i mean to you and you let me hide it
where is the onus? because you own this now

thats fine
press that button in time
if you do to just follow on
i can make it all alright
i can make it all unwind 
in you’re nine
to just follow you

slow down show me where the edge is
freak out lick somebody eyelids
you know sometimes I’m barely listening at all

big deal sucking on a lemon
big blocks sitting’ in the mempool
each day, Vitalik is on my mind

where’s my passion gone? these rules are not wrong
theres only so much serotonin to go around

you said how much i meant to you and you left me high
you laid out what you had to do and you left me hided
you left us with our eyes all waking red

theres no reserves 
you’re lying
these rails will be lines in time


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all music and words by Antony Walker
Recorded in Jersey @ Mapley St.
Mixed by Cian Houchin @ MeTech Recordings (Bedford)
Mastered by Tim Turan @ TuranAudio (Oxford)

Where’s My Passion Gone?

so we see on the timers all we have are reminders 
of our time in the house
we don’t know all the facts you can pull all the punches
over chairs in the lunches

we are new world survivors 
we didn’t need your reminders
we did time in the house
you don’t know all the facts 
you can pull all the punches
over chairs in the lunches
 
listening with intent
what percent?
got your deeds
got your doubts
but your losing 

I can’t work you out
what about?
got your deeds
got your doubts
but your losing 

now is this skippin’ enough 
gonna get real rough
catch your t’s 
don’t catch your tongue 
but your losing now

now is this skippin’ enough 
gonna get real rough
catch your t’s 
don’t catch your tongue 
heard you’re rising now

I work you out
what about?
got your deeds
got your doubts
but your losing

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all music and words by Antony Walker
Recorded in Jersey @ Mapley St.
Mixed by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)
Mastered by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)

Pull the Punches

when I look at you, when I look at you

you were the north sea
and a blood drop of devotion
and the lies on your TV
you told me it was nothing to worry about
I was the ship sunk deep in the sea
rusted and eroded
I’m just a part of the Western machine.

when I look at you all i see is a falling star
when i look at you all i see is a broken
my heart is all i see
cause i can’t help you daily to live out your broken plans
and hand me downs
its all we had back then

you were the north sea
and a blood drop of devotion
and the lies on your TV
you told me it was nothing to worry about
I was the ship sunk deep in the sea
rusted and eroded
I’m just a part of the Western machine.

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all music and words by Antony Walker and Jason Neil.
Recorded in Jersey @ Mapley St.
Mixed by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)
Mastered by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)

Lies on your TV

You had a mealworm in your lettuce 
and I couldn’t bear to see it squirm
I took it to the door and i set it free 
my neighbour was so suspicious of me

that summer was so long
we had no commitments
just unfinished songs and football plans
every day a victory
until that final flight back home

I was looking for a job so I called your agency 
you sent me to your email inbox with my CV
I waited two weeks and heard nothing
Im looking down every single avenue
now it seems like you’re the ones who are
trying to block me out 

that summer was so long
we had no commitments
just unfinished songs and football plans
every day a victory
until that final flight back home
and that flight back was like getting your life back

from these bloodsucking agencies 
and the Karens on the desks that just make it hard
Hey, I’m qualified but you wanna bum me out

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all music and words by Antony Walker and Jason Neil.
Recorded in Jersey @ Mapley St.
Mixed by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)
Mastered by Jeroen Nees @ Wooolf Sounds (Belgium)

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