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Holy Smokes Future Jokes (Lp)

Blitzen Trapper

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Format: CD

Cat No: CDYEP2725

Format Details: Lp

Release Date:  25 September 2020

Label:  Yep Roc

Packaging Type:  Digipak

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457272521

Genres:  Rock  Alternative  

Release Date:  25 September 2020

Label:  Yep Roc

Packaging Type:  Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  634457272514

Genres:  Rock  Alternative  

  • Description

    Singer-songwriters have been tackling existential questions about life and death since time immemorial' or at least the 1960s. But when it came to Blitzen Trapper's newest album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, front man Eric Earley looked beyond mere existence'or even the end of it'to contend with grander cosmic explorations: namely, the intermediate period between a person's separate lives on earth, 'and what it means to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth,' he explains.

    Inspired by George Saunders' 2017 experimental tome, Lincoln in the Bardo and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Earley's lyrics take the listener on a wild and dramatic journey through rivers of waist-high water in the aftermath of a tragic car wreck and the hazy morning before a murderous moment, and from getting blitzed to the point of extinction inside a masonic temple to a stop for chips and dip before the apocalypse.

    Description

    Singer-songwriters have been tackling existential questions about life and death since time immemorial' or at least the 1960s. But when it came to Blitzen Trapper's newest album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, front man Eric Earley looked beyond mere existence'or even the end of it'to contend with grander cosmic explorations: namely, the intermediate period between a person's separate lives on earth, 'and what it means to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth,' he explains.

    Inspired by George Saunders' 2017 experimental tome, Lincoln in the Bardo and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Earley's lyrics take the listener on a wild and dramatic journey through rivers of waist-high water in the aftermath of a tragic car wreck and the hazy morning before a murderous moment, and from getting blitzed to the point of extinction inside a masonic temple to a stop for chips and dip before the apocalypse.

    Packaging: 12" Vinyl [w/ download card]

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Baptismal
      • 2. Bardo's Light (Ouija, Ouija)
      • 3. Don't Let Me Run
      • 4. Magical Thinking
      • 5. Masonic Temple Microdose #1
      • 6. Requiem
      • 7. Holy Smokes Future Jokes
      • 8. Sons And Unwed Mothers
      • 9. Dead Billie Jean
      • 10. Hazy Morning

    Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Baptismal
      • 2. Bardo's Light (Ouija, Ouija)
      • 3. Don't Let Me Run
      • 4. Magical Thinking
      • 5. Masonic Temple Microdose #1
      • 6. Requiem
      • 7. Holy Smokes Future Jokes
      • 8. Sons and Unwed Mothers
      • 9. Dead Billie Jean
      • 10. Hazy Morning