- electronic, ambient
- 41 min
- 6 tracks
- kranky
Per Aspera Ad Astra is the fourth studio album by Stars of the Lid, made in collaboration with artist Jon McCafferty and released on Kranky in 1998. McCafferty approached Stars of the Lid with a view towards collaboration after working on a series of paintings inspired by the duo's 1995 debut Music for Nitrous Oxide. The title is a common Latin phrase translatable as "through hardships, to the stars."
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Character
Grave, contemplative, character-led and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
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Tracks
- A1Low Level (Listening)+, Part 16:23
- A2Low Level (Listening)+, Part 28:43
- A3Low Level (Listening)+, Part 35:29
- B1Anchor States, Part 14:28
- B2Anchor States, Part 28:51
- B3Anchor States, Part 36:46
6 tracks, 41 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Stars of the Lid, Jon McCafferty
- Label
- kranky
- Released
- November 18, 1998
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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