Astral blends shoegaze dreampop influences of the early 90's with a shadowy post-punk minimalism of the early 80's, reminicent of early 4AD.

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Astral is a San Francisco-based indie/dream-pop band. Blending elements of shoegaze wall of sounds with post-punk minimalism, Astral weaves a soundscape of texture and melody in a less-than rosy-colored world..."My Bloody Valentine meets Joy Division"- Amoeba Music

Astral's debut full length CD, Orchids, features 10 songs that span the inception in 2000 through 2003. Orchids has charted on college radio CMJ report at #15 on KYMC, St.Louis, in October 2003. An online review of this CD is available on Bay Area Buzz (nov 2003 issue) at http://www.bayareabuzz.net/cdreviews/#cdr2

A few songs from Orchids were recorded at CRI in San Francisco, CA in 2002 during the "Only Sometimes" sessions and were later completed and mixed at Stout Recording Studio in Oakland, CA in 2003. The album was engineered by Randy Burk who had also engineered recordings for bands such as the Swinging Utters among others.