A motivação de Astor para Tall Stories & New Religions é múltipla. Algumas músicas são efetivamente reexaminadas da mesma forma que alguém se pode debruçar sobre uma imagem ressonante de uma caixa de fotografias antigas – conectando-se com a essência de um eu mais jovem. Outras canções foram recentemente reformuladas em tons mais sábios e reflexivos, enquanto outras simplesmente exigiram a exumação de uma não produção deliberadamente opaca e lo fi. As músicas escolhidas não são as óbvias - não há "Up the Hill and Down the Slope" ou "Almost Prayed" aqui - mas foram selecionadas por razões mais interessantes, muitas vezes esotéricas.

Astor é acompanhado por um grupo estimável de co-conspiradores, fruto de muitas horas passadas a tocar juntos em discos e concertos na última década. Eles são o baterista Ian Button (Death in Vegas, Papernut Cambridge, Go Kart Mozart), o baixista Andy Lewis (Paul Weller, Soho Radio e Blow Up DJ), o guitarrista Wilson Neil Scott (Summerhill, Felt, Everything But the Girl) e o teclista/ multi-instrumentista/ produtor Sean Read (Dexys, Mark Lanegan, Dave Gahan, Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers, Beth Orton, Chrissie Hynde…).

Juntos, revisitaram essas joias perdidas de músicas de uma maneira que permitiu a Astor equilibrar a forma como elas ainda fazem sentido para ele agora, olhando tanto para o futuro quanto para aquele grande e interessante novo país, o passado.

Tall Stories & New Religions é editado dia 15 de março pela Tapete Records. 

SINGLE “MODEL VILLAGE”
There was a time in my life a few years ago when some things very central to my life started to fall apart at the same time as some very important things came together. Time passing, some old wounds healing, and battles resolved brought this song about. I don’t know why but Model Villages always seem like the saddest places, the way a world and the lives in them are presented in a still and miniature order – the sadness comes from the fact that the world is never ever like that.

I remember being 11 and one of my main pastimes was the hours and hours that I spent making plastic models. I clearly remember, as well being obsessed with finding the correct German camouflage for a Panzer IV, also coming under the spell of music - Slade and others (but mainly Slade) were starting to fill up my head. My concern then was ‘which way will this go? Will it be music or military modelling?’. Not long after, the answer was very clear. That was the way it goes with the teenage years of course – things moved very fast. Anyway, maybe a comfortable world being built in miniature was coming back to me with Model Village. – Pete Astor

DISCO TALL STORIES & NEW RELIGIONS
As the fiftieth birthday approaches, you get the sense that your life is thinning out and will continue to thin out, until it thins out into nothing. And you sometimes say to yourself: that went a bit quick. In certain moods, you may want to put it rather more forcefully. As in: OY!! THAT went a BIT FUCKING QUICK!!!… then fifty comes and goes, and fifty-one, and fifty-two. And life thickens out again. Because there is now an enormous and unsuspected presence within your being, like an undiscovered continent. This is the past. – Martin Amis

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