Well folks, if all seems somewhat quiet in the LP4 world from the outside, I can assure you it’s all quite busy here at LP4 central headquarters. We’ve been busy rehearsing and arranging new material and we’ll begin recording basic tracks on May 11th which is just around the corner. Since now we have enough details that we can share, we figured we’d share the current info with y’all.
First off, fans of our heavy stoner rock fare will have to wait until the fall for the heavy to drop but meanwhile this summer, we have a 7″ EP coming out called “Find What You Love and Let it Kill You” which will be lighter fare. The title, for those of you wondering, comes from some advice I got from Texas legend, Kinky Friedman and he was kind enough to not only let me quote it for the EP title but also gave his blessing to quote it in the lyrics of one of the songs. So, thanks Kinky. The tracks will consist of three short songs – a garage/punk track called “USA“, a poppy psych track that had the working title of “George Harrison” for a while but currently has the name “The Road” which may change, and a mellow folky track called “La Jetee” which takes the Chris Marker French film classic as a kind of jump-off point. (We hope to have Mlee contribute backing vocals on this track which would be pretty cool.) If you’ve not seen the film, you can see it on Vimeo.
This 7″ will have a limited run of only 100, will be pressed on red vinyl, and (while I had hoped for a first week of July release date) United Records said if we get the masters to them by the end of May, then we’re really looking at the end of July. Not sure if we will have a video for this project. More than likely, we will save that when we pull out the stops in October.
October 31 that is. That’s when we drop “C is for Cthulhu” which will be our second 7″ EP of the year. This one will have a larger run of 200 and will definitely have a video with it. Stevie Sims, of Burn the Boats who you last saw in the “Assault on the Vault of the Ancient Bonglords” video will take over on lead vocals. It’s (appropriately enough) a monster of a Clinton Heider track and has so many parts that I myself plan to hunker down this weekend and rehearse all the changes until I go stark raving mad. Not sure yet what the other track or tracks will be for this one but we’ll let you know as we go along.
Oh yes and we will make these available as digital tracks as well a vinyl.
Until next time
Keep on rockin’ in the free world!
