Astral Brain

Swedish indie pop duo Astral Brain combine warm synths, bubbling electronic textures, and candy-coated vocals into a swirling psychedelic mixture that's perfect for drifting and dreaming. Not a million miles away from Broadcast at their poppiest, the band's debut album, The Bewildered Mind, was released in 2021. The Stockholm-based group got its start when Einar Ekström's previous band Le Futur Pompiste splintered in the early 2010s, leaving him with no outlet for his songs or production work. He started working on music on his own, drawing inspiration from library music and ...