Steam the whole album now.

Leeds-born producer Xao returns to Astral Black for his second excursion on the label, Eternal Care Unit.

The album’s title is medical slang for a morgue and the record “soundtracks the transcendental shift from the physical to the spiritual realm”. Xao explores futuristic avant-grime, sci-fi hardcore and cybernetic techno over the course of eight tracks – listen to the whole thing, below.

Eternal Care Unit is available digitally and on vinyl LP now via Astral Black. The release is accompanied with a long sleeve T-shirt and artwork designed by Patrick Savile, who has contributed art to labels including Bokeh Versions and Warp. Check out the artwork, T-shirt and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

01. ‘Embryno’
02. ‘Corvid Tendencies’
03. ‘Hydroxyapatite’
04. ‘Blades // Savants’
05. ‘Cyan Shackled’
06. ‘Bernet Franca’
07. ‘Vent Jockey’
08. ‘This Film Does Not Exist’

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