“Sternpost is the work of Malmo’s Petter Herbertsson, a highly experienced musician whose work pre-dates any sounds currently emanating from the Swedish underground yet certainly shares a similar ethos to those satellite operations. Traversing the kind of jazz-aligned, bossa nova inspired spaceage pop we might immediately associate with Stereolab / High Llamas etc, this is notably less autodidactic/rough-around-the-edges than much of the Discreet-related output, but still feels distinctly sideways spun and self-determining in that same beautifully DIY/independent way. There’s some extremely expert songwriting skills on show here, too, the kind you rarely see from ‘the underground’. Think something like Harry Nilsson and Smiley Smile-era Beach Boys passed through a European arthouse filter, Autumn Sonata re-imagined for 70s LA if you like. It’s wonderfully arranged and complex stuff, but with a wide emotional range that never lets virtuosity get in the way of its vision. A pure and true voice broadcast the margins in hi-fi sound. What endeavour! Sold out at source and all that.” — World of Echo