12/29/25.
Concentric Circles (Portland, Oregon) is releasing the new Sternpost (Malmö, Sweden) LP in January 2026. We first posted about the band in 2024 after learning about them through a Monorail email. Monorail heaped praise upon the LP "Ulrika" and mentioned The Pastels, Euros Childs, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, The Zombies and Robert Wyatt in their write-up. I added The High Llamas.
"unworld.afterpop" only has three songs currently available for streaming. The High Llamas immediately come to mind again as does Van Dyke Parks, Chris Weisman, Peel Dream Magazine, and Prefab Sprout.
Sternpost is still centered around multi-instrumentalist Petter Herbertsson (who is also a member of Testbild! - we covered their collaboration with Louis Philippe called The Ocean Tango back in 2018).
