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Today's Shelf Pull: Ashtar Afterhours, Body Music

The Cherries Have Faces

Today's Shelf Pull: Ashtar Afterhours, Body Music. Read Eamon Lane’s story from Kilmorna in Listowel, with the people, records, art or town life behind it.

Some records arrive trying to look mysterious.

Body Music arrives with a white sleeve, green stems, pink fruit, and several small faces that appear to have just been told the coffee machine is making a noise again.

Ashtar Afterhours are on the shelf today, and the sleeve is already doing more social work than most album covers attempt before lunch. Little cherries, berries, or possibly deeply concerned nightclub citizens hang from rough green lines across the white space. Some look calm. Some look worried. One or two look as if they have seen the card machine decline at exactly the wrong moment.

Good. A record sleeve should have a little public feeling.

On the shelf today

Ashtar Afterhours - Body Music

LP / Electronic / 2025

EUR18 / Sold out

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