"Unsent Letters" – unwritten letters: left lying in the clutter of a desk or in the "If, then there" drawer, they testify to past phases of life, rainy afternoons, doubts, experiments, and unfinished thoughts. Curled and roughened at the edges, long forgotten, there comes a time when we lift them up again like a treasure and rediscover them: there are stories to be told. This is more or less what happened to Pete Astor. He is a musician, author, and lecturer. He was the frontman of the bands The Loft and The Weather Prophets on the Creation Records label and wrote songs that significantly shaped the label's sound and the emerging indie genre. Since then, he has pursued a long-standing solo career and released music on various labels including Matador, Heavenly, Warp, EMI, and Fortuna Pop. He is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Westminster. In addition to extensive touring, he also produces alongside David Sheppard as Ellis Island.
Sound Records and releases his spoken-word electro-pop project The Attendant together with Ian Button (Go Kart Mozart, Death in Vegas) on his label Faux Lux. Since 2017, Astor has been signed to the prestigious Tapete Records label, which also houses artists such as Robert Forster, Lloyd Cole, and Comet Gain—among many other great acts. 2025 is a year in which Pete Astor revived his first band, The Loft. The band had split up in 1985 and had just released their
The band's debut album, "Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same," was completed. As the title suggests, the band is rooted in the past, yet undeniably looking forward to the future. "Unsent Letters" stems from a similar context: It contains songs that Astor wrote during his time with The Loft but never played—along with songs from his forty-year career that are finally seeing the light of day.
