The long-sequestered follow-up to 1996’s Electriclarryland will arrive in June.
Butthole Surfers have announced plans to release their shelved 1998 studio album After The Astronaut.
The long-sequestered project was originally recorded in 1998 as the successor to the venerated Texas rock band’s seventh album Electriclarryland, however plans for its release were halted when growing tensions with Capitol Records led to legal interventions and an eventual departure from the group’s major label contract. Many of the songs penned for After The Astronaut would later emerge on 2001’s Weird Revolution, though were reworked at the influence of the Walt Disney-affiliated Hollywood Records and ultimately strayed far from the band’s original vision. Almost three decades on from its conception members Gibby Haynes, King Coffey and Paul Leary will now present After The Astronaut in its intended and unfettered form through Sunset Blvd Records on 26th June, complete with original artwork and titles.
Drummer King Coffey shares of the album’s original sessions,
“After the Astronaut was a fun project. We were using all the digital toys at our disposal at the time, and it felt much like the creation of Locust Abortion (1987). We were playing with new toys, creating things that amused us with the crayons we had, and we weren’t worried about radio airplay. It felt like we were going back to our experimental roots while still navigating the major label ecosystem.”
Hear lead single ‘Jet Fighter’ and view the track list for After The Astronaut below.
After The Astronaut
1 ‘Weird Revolution’
2 ‘Intelligent Guy’
3 ‘Jet Fighter’
4 ‘Mexico’
5 ‘Imbuya’
6 ‘Venus’
7 ‘The Last Astronaut’
8 ‘Yentel’
9 ‘Junkie Jenny In Gaytown’
10 ‘They Came In’
11 ‘I Don’t Have A Problem’
12 ‘Turkey And Dressing’
After The Astronaut releases on 26th June via Sunset Blvd Records. Pre-order the album on vinyl here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
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