Straight from Wiener Neustadt, a town of 40,000 inhabitants in eastern Austria south of Vienna, Astpai is back in 2018 with a new album (the 6th since 2005) "True Capacity" which will be released on June 22nd at Jump Start records and Shield Recordings. For the occasion the Austrian band will be on tour for about ten days across France, the Belgium and Switzerland with the Not Scientists from 18 May. 4 years after "Burden Calls", Astpai is back with "True Capacity" and an unchanged recipe. Imagine a cross between AC/DC and the no less legendary (for punk rockers) Kid Philadelphia Dynamite: sharp riffs and powerful melodies. 10 titles, produced by J. Robbins of Jawbox, with a very personal approach and a central theme which questions the human being's ability to receive and process the constant flow of information to which he or she is exposed. is confronted daily. Its "real ability" to analyze all this in the way that one would talk about the performance of a and its productivity in a company. "True Capacity" unrolls 40 minutes of indie-punk hits like the Austrians know the for 17 years now. catchy choruses (Rotten Balt, Saving Up, Body Parts), a punk ballad with Feel Your Pain and sparkling punk rock songs, like this first single Best Years, to discover here in video : https://youtu.be/8rSHwtBi23c. Best Years is one of the first song written and composed for this new album, it approaches the period that Zock, the singer-guitarist, was going through at the time and the impact in his relationships with her loved ones, including the fact that some have distanced themselves in order to allow her to to breathe and solve his problems. A personal and catchy album, exactly what we expected from Astpai in 2018!
