Since 1999 Oakland’s Rock In opposition to Rock provocateurs Sleepytime Gorilla Museum have been rewriting the heavy facet of avant-garde with nearly each twist within the vine. Their perpetual use of the kitchen sink has rightly or wrongly earned them comparisons to Mr. Bungle, Estradasphere and Secret Chiefs three and after 13 years of inactivity the band has returned weirder, heavier and extra off the chain with studio album quantity 4, of the Final Human Being. The band’s new album is formally launched tomorrow they usually’ve already been on the highway for a couple weeks, together with two reveals final week on the Stanley Resort in Estes Park, CO — sure, the identical resort of The Shining fame — and as such a couple of singles and movies have already been making the promotional rounds. At this time, we current the most recent single from the album, “El Evil.” Whereas we’re unsure if the complete title of the tune is or isn’t “El Evil – for Tony Gallegos (1966-2021), a.okay.a. Bunny Man, a.okay.a. El Evil,” both approach it’s a rhythmically coruscating beast that combines vocal chants, wavelength baroqueness, Sunday morning church bell round-ups and left-field scattershotting.
Says head Gorilla, Nils Frykdahl concerning the monitor in typical SGM inveterate perplexity: “The chorus of ‘El Evil’ is borrowed from the Fool Flesh tune ‘Let the Canine Sing’ (recorded in 1998 however quickly to be launched). At a present in Fresno, Tony had joined us in his Bunny Man costume. A drunken bar patron stored yelling ‘Hey, let the canine sing!’ Solely close to the top of the present did we understand he thought Tony was a canine. Gracias to his household in Norwalk for years of hospitality. Nothing will outshine…”
SONG LYRICS
Make approach, make approach for Bunny Man! Step again, step again otherwise you’re happening.
Coming by means of, coming by means of.
Bunny Man, hopping down the bunny path,
Let the bells ring, let the milk chalk,
let the corpse hatch, let the useless stroll, let the canine sing!
Nothing this 12 months, nothing from right here will outshine the smiling face of Evil. Nothing in time, nothing that’s mine will displace the common-or-garden hint of Evil.
Let the bells ring!
Hopping down the bunny path, must be carrying the mail
to the home with a pomegranate tree within the entrance yard
and the doorways at all times open to the vacationers.
Hopping down the bunny monitor, by no means look again.
Dropping down the bunny gap to bop with the undermole.
Damas y Caballeros, escuchale la Matemática Negra
de la Carne Idiota, o un Conejo Gigantico
O Las Gorillas Durmiendo en un Museum
Make approach, make room for Bunny Man!
Calling… hear this now should you can. Calling by means of, crawling by means of, coming too, Bunny Man, let the Gallegos make it by means of! Down in Norwalk, let the data play. Is it too loud, would the neighbors say?
Let the canine sing? Let the bells ring!
SONG CREDITS
Track and construction by Nils Frykdahl
Components by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Carla Kihlstedt – violin, singing and growling;
Nils Frykdahl – guitar, singing, growling, bells;
Michael Iago Mellender – guitar, growling;
Dan Rathbun – bass, yelling;
Matthias Bossi – drums, singing;
Visitor Performer
Thor Harris – bells.
“El Evil” was recorded at Polymorph in Oakland, CA and residence studios in 2023.
Revealed by Sleepy Time Gorilla Press Music, BMI
Combined by Dan Rathbun 2023
Produced by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Mastered by Todd Rittmann
REMAINING TOUR DATES
03/21-24 – Knoxville, TN – BIG EARS FESTIVAL
03/25 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West w/ Faun Fables, The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir
03/26 – Winter Park, FL – Conduit w/ Faun Fables, Indorphine, Flagman
03/27 – Tampa, FL – Orpheum w/ Faun Fables, Indorphine, Flagman
03/28 – New Orleans, LA – Howlin’ Wolf w/ Faun Fables, Anareta
03/29 – Houston, TX – Secret Group w/ Faun Fables, Oceans of Slumber
03/30 – Austin, TX – The Mohawk w/ Faun Fables, Thor Harris Duo, Oceans of Slumber, Reverse Day, The Parlour Trick
03-31 – Dallas, TX – Bushes w/ Pinkish Black, Faun Fables
04/02 – Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar w/ Faun Fables
04/03 – Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom w/ Faun Fables, Meet the Solar
04/04 – Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole w/ Faun Fables, Pores and skin Concept
04/05 – Los Angeles, CA – The Fonda Theatre w/ Faun Fables
04/06 – Berkeley, CA – The UC Theatre w/ Faun Fables, Cassette Prophet, Surplus 1980, Kitka
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