Tracklist:

1. Service Station at the End of the Universe
2. Rafters
3. The Great Pyramid of Stockport
4. Big Light
5. Yoga Teacher
6. CrumbSIDE
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Fallacy
8. passingthru
9. Take Me There
10. Restless Leg Syndrome
11. Crashing Up
12. Angie's Wedding

Manchester-based poet, writer and producer Antony Szmierek releases his debut album, Service Station At The End Of The Universe. The past fewyears have been a wild ride for the artist. Cutting his teeth on the Manchester spoken word scene and gaining notoriety for his seamless flowskewering everything from the hardships of contemporary British life to finding the unexpected beauty in the everyday, it was the 2023 release of hissingle ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Fallacy’ that kicked off his meteoric ascent. The earworming track soon found its way onto the BBC 6 Musicairwaves and led Szmierek to be named an Artist of the Year 2023 by the station. There followed appearances on Later… with Jools Holland, a BBCRadio 1 Maida Vale session, multiple triumphant Glastonbury sets and a flurry of comparisons: to the pavement prose of The Streets, the poetry ofJohn Cooper Clarke if he found himself at the Haçienda, or like Jarvis Cocker for the UK Garage generation. Yet, with the release of his 2023 indie-influenced EP Poems To Dance To and now his banger-filled, dancefloor-focused debut album, Service Station at the End of the Universe, Szmierekcements his sound as one that is distinctly his own. While the album provides a culmination of the deep dancefloor poetry that began with ‘TheHitchhiker’s Guide to the Fallacy’, it also showcases a new side to Szmierek’s writing, producing moments of downbeat, dark poignance. The albumproduces a cohesive and infectious journey through pop melodic hooks and thumping dancefloor orchestrations.