Hastings of Malawi are a British group with roots reaching back to 1981 and one legendary early album to their name, a record whose personnel included Heman Pathak, one of the untrained musicians behind Nurse With Wound's debut. By their own account they make films without light, radio plays and poems rather than records in any ordinary sense, and Choreological Exchanges continues their long investigation into the medium of communication itself.

Recorded during the pandemic, as remote contact became the norm, the album reaches back to the era before digital telephony, when calls passed through mechanical exchanges: much of side one is built from the sound of those exchanges and the voices of the engineers who tended them. The group call it a dance record, though not in the usual sense, a dance within the wires, with the invitation arriving around twelve minutes in, noise treated as sculptural material rather than unwanted signal. More linear than their usual Dadaist collage, and genuinely strange. LP.