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LIVING THE DREAM

“Not everybody can be astronauts exploring space, but our music is our way of exploring ourselves and different possibilities.”
Torsten Kinsella

n a dark year of downtempo albums, Irish rockers God Is An Astronaut are bucking the trend with their new LP. is in-your-face, intense and promises to be explosive when they play it live. Their elegiac 2018 album, , saw them mourning the passing of their seven-year-old cousin, but their latest release is a different beast. Even before the pandemic, the band, led by Torsten and Niels Kinsella, were looking to move forward, and start a new chapter. It’s fitting because God Is An Astronaut have gone through a rebirth of sorts. Rounded out by drummer Lloyd Hanney, their new album sees the return of musician Jamie Dean,

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