Despite God Is An Astronaut being an odd fit in the genre, their fanbase is the stuff of post-rock cliché: international, obsessive, audiophilic, technologically savvy. “People in England don’t realise how big they are,” declares Joshi. “We get so many messages through Bandcamp saying ‘I’ve got all of your albums and I love you’. We don’t get that through any other Bandcamp. They play places like Russia and there are queues around the block to see them. They’ve got such die-hard fans. When I released the last album, I must have shipped 700 just directly from mail order and the post office were
...more
