The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst combines with Budgie and Jacknife Lee on a new album.
The record brings together a triptych of enormous respected figures, each working in tandem with each other. The new album is titled ‘Los Angeles’ and lands on November 3rd, the product of sessions stretching back four years.
A hugely collaborative experience, guests on the record range from Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie through to avant grade harpist Mary Lattimore, held together by the central production trio.
In a note, Budgie comments: “Lol is very levelling. He calls himself a pragmatist, whereas I’m very impetuous, and it was like Garret was bridging the two, in his consultation room”.
New single – and title song – ‘Los Angeles’ is out now, with a trademark vocal from LCD Soundsystem leader James Murphy. Industrial-leaning electronics matched to charred black instrumentation, his intense vocal is perfect for the song.
Lol comments: “Adding some vocalists that we like was obviously going to make it more attractive to people, so over the space of about 18 months to two years, we got a whole bunch of them in, and as far as lyrics went, we just said, ‘You make something up!’”
Tune in below.
1. This Is What It Is (To Be Free) [with Bobby Gillespie]
2. Los Angeles [with James Murphy]
3. Uh Oh [with Arrow de Wilde and Mark Bowen (IDLES)]
4. Ghosted At Home [with Bobby Gillespie]
5. Train With No Station [with The Edge]
6. Bodies [with Lonnie Holley and Mary Lattimore]
7. Everything And Nothing
8. Travel Channel [with Pam Amsterdam]
9. Country of the Blind [with Bobby Gillespie]
10. The Past (Being Eaten)
11. We Got To Move [with Isaac Brock]
12. Noche Ocsura [with The Edge]
13. Skins [with James Murphy]
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