Coffin Prick has today released his new single titled ‘Soap’, from his upcoming album ‘Loose Enchantment’, dropping May 16th via Temporal Drift.
Avant-Garde without the obscurity is my best description on this first listen. Accessibility with excessiveness filtered through that certain something that makes things brilliantly light up the outside of that box. This is a track I can’t just listen too just once. Think of an amazing side project that stems from an already original band. Like what Tom Tom Club was to Talking Heads. Layers upon layers separate it from the mainstream until it becomes its own mainstream.
‘Soap’ is the very definition of that original feeling, not just sound, that we so desperately need in the music industry. Independent by design. In every single way.
“This tune, a reconstructed skeleton, was first conceived of a few years before I recorded the version you’re hearing for yourself now. Turned inside out from its original instrumental form, a vocal song of secrets tightly held in broken hands! Featuring the first appearance of acoustic drumming on a Coffin Prick number (Ably handled by CP live-band drum man, Alejandro Salazar-Dyer), “Soap” is my ode to the inexplicable allure and dichotomy of disappearing AND being found out. A way of scrubbing the record clean. Keeping clean is more than mere allusion. The only “guitar solo” on the album. Yes…You read that right.”
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About ‘Loose Enchantment’
Loose Enchantment, this latest Coffin Prick record, is music conceived of in a different frame of mind for humans living in a world nearly disenchanted with itself. The album consists of eleven new pieces of music recorded by Coffin Prick himself at his home in Los Angeles, a great city of quicksand-like commitments and those who love them enough to uphold the ends of their collective bargains. A record as much about the confusion of modern life as it has endeavored to expose the lusts in the very loins of creation. Sounds enchanting enough for you? Let’s look a little more closely…
Coffin Prick primarily records, on his own, though he occasionally receives great collaborative assistance from a sometimes-silent and shadowy partner, Pancho. When the time is right, he leans on a host of harmonically sympathetic luminaries that exist in and out of his immediate musical community, including Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), Alejandro Salazar-Dyer (Rincs), Kathy Lea (Soft Location), John Herndon (Tortoise), and Aaron Fernandez Olson (LA Takedown). These musical endeavors implement elements of the technologically advanced and the undeniably broken. Equally informed by the not-so-distant past as imaginary future scenarios, his ongoing recorded life continues to mine this deep well. Not so much a “solo” performer as an idea, Coffin Prick is a malleable form whose potential is concurrently cemented and unknown.
On the heels of 2023’s Laughing (Sophomore Lounge), Coffin Prick got busy. And fast. Playing shows into the year with a newly minted live band, while working day and night in his home studio laying the ground for what would become Loose Enchantment. Whereas he was essentially a recording know-nothing at the inception of his last LP, he’d learned a thing or two about better capturing his ideas by this point, taking the sidesteps and victories born of the experience Laughing provided and turning the bright lights on them. As many of Los Angeles’s drivers choose to do, it was time to take some surface roads. Odes to self-delusion, the mysteries of creation, cleanliness, and the secrets in other people’s lives.
A little Loose Enchantment for everyone.
‘Loose Enchantment’ Tracklist
- Follow You Where You’re Talking
- Shortly Forgotten Pleasure
- Loose Enchantment
- Exile In Exile
- Work (ft. Steven Brown of Tuxedomoon)
- Push-Button Village
- Soap
- Spy v Spy
- Theme From “Other People’s Lives”
- Window In Your Eye
- Western Folly: Floating Love/Drying Off In The Rain/How Seconds Work
About Coffin Prick
Coffin Prick is currently based in Los Angeles, CA. He records on his own, though he occasionally receives great collaborative assistance from a sometimes-silent and shadowy partner, Pancho. Previously of Cavity and The Cairo Gang, when the time is right, he leans on a host of harmonically sympathetic luminaries in and out of his immediate musical community.
These musical endeavors implement elements of the technologically advanced and the undeniably broken. Equally informed by the not-so-distant past as imaginary future scenarios, his ongoing recorded life continues to mine this deep well. Not so much a “solo” performer as an idea, Coffin Prick is a malleable form whose potential is concurrently cemented and unknown.
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