Following last year’s debut album, Hollow Ponds, Astronauts is gearing up to release his second album End Codes. Preceding the album release in April, Dan Carney, the man behind the project, has just released a new single called ‘Civil Engineer’. As the press release puts it, the track “showcases the kind of cascading bleepy loveliness for which Dan has become very slightly known, and demonstrates that brain-burrowing pop hooks and originality can sometimes be more than mere acquaintances.”
The single is now available through Lo Recordings, and it comes with remixes from Bit Cloudy and Kieran Mahon. ‘Civil Engineer’ also comes with a video accompaniment, made by Manana Films. Watch it below.

London based Dan Carney, formerly of alt-folkers Dark Captain, has a new solo project called Astronauts, and a debut album about to drop. Entitled Hollow Ponds after an area of Epping Forest in North-east London, the effort arrives on July 21st via Lo Recordings.
According to the press release, Hollow Ponds “combines the soft melancholy, psych-folky dynamics and bubbling electronic textures favoured by Dan in his former incarnation with more adventurous moments of good ol’fashioned spiky guitar abuse.”

Delivering a blissful ride, ‘Skydive’ serves as the album’s wonderful first taste. Wrap your ears around this beauty below.