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As we mark and reflect of the passing of our key influencer we comment on the state of things This is not an homage to the man but to his work.

Summing up the track label boss Ian Moss said "musically it has a subdued grandeur and its' stately pace is perfect for the as ever intriguing vocal and lyric that acts as a fractured word portrait of people and places" .

Formed in the NALGO rooms Northampton over several pints in 1982, Auster Boys are Bob Auster North and Bob Auster South who got together through a mutual admiration of New York writer Paul Auster and The Fall. Countless tapes of their material are consigned to history and may well be digitised one day. Pending that we have released at least some of a mammoth back catalogue of obscure material .