Asteroid Ekosystem

Asteroid Ekosystem: Sounds Have Dreams

by Glenn Astarita
May 9, 2026

Sounds Have Dreams is the audacious third album (and second studio effort) from Asteroid Ekosystem, the project led by Australian pianist and composer Alister Spence. He has assembled an unlikely quartet that sidesteps genre boundaries: punk and post-punk guitarist Ed Kuepper, The Necks bassist Lloyd Swanton, and the precise, inventive drummer Toby Hall. Spence shaped raw guitar phrases from Kuepper into compositional sketches, then reconvened the group. The result feels less like a conventional album and more like ...