There It Goes Again...that Eerie Music
| Green Naugahyde | ||||
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| Studio album by Primus | ||||
| Released | September 12, 2011 (2011-09-12) | |||
| Recorded | October 2010[1] to Apr 2011[a] | |||
| Studio | Rancho Relaxo, Sebastopol, California | |||
| Genre | Funk rock, experimental rock | |||
| Length | 50:46 | |||
| Label | ATO Records, Prawn Song[iv] | |||
| Producer | Les Claypool[iv] | |||
| Primus chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Dark-green Naugahyde | ||||
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Greenish Naugahyde is the 7th studio album past rock group Primus, released by ATO Records and Prawn Song on September 12, 2011 in Europe,[6] and on September xiii, 2011 in the United states of america.[four] It is the band's beginning album since 1999's Antipop, and features their first new material since 2003'due south Animals Should Not Try to Human action Like People EP. It is the only Primus album to feature Jay Lane on drums, as he left the band in September 2013.[7]
The anthology'south title comes from the lyrics to the song "Lee Van Cleef", which describe a group of friends watching movies featuring Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood, and driving a yellowish Studebaker with a greenish Naugahyde interior.
Background [edit]
Primus has been on hiatus since 2003, with the trio'southward members working on a variety of other projects.
Green Naugahyde is the only Primus album to feature drummer Jay Lane alongside perennial bassist/vocalist Les Claypool and guitarist Larry LaLonde. Lane had previously been a member for a brief period in 1988 with Claypool and original guitarist Todd Huth, and has been involved with a number of Claypool's side projects, such equally The Holy Mackerel, Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, and Sausage, which was itself a reunion of the 1988 Primus lineup.[4] [8] Claypool has stated that "[Lane] coming back has only breathed life back into the project. Nosotros did some touring, and we decided, "Allow's go brand a tape," because nosotros were creating things on the road."[8] He as well stated:
I wasn't that excited about doing Primus over again, but Larry and I were hanging out, and that friendship was rekindled. Information technology was very credible that it wasn't going to happen with [drummer]Tim [Alexander], and he wasn't that excited about doing things again. So, we talked to Jay Lane, and we actually had a jam with Jay Lane, and he brought this huge ball of energy back into the room from the very 2nd he started playing, and that's the primary reason nosotros're doing it over again. There's this artistic period over again that hasn't been in that location in a long time.[9]
Promotion [edit]
In interviews conducted in March and Apr 2011, Primus gave the album an estimated street date of May.[one] [2] In May, Claypool revealed that the album was complete and had been named Green Naugahyde, and though the band had been "shooting for June", they chose to push button information technology back to July to avert conflict with the holiday season.[3] Finally, it was announced in June through a press release that the date had been settled in September.[4]
On August 17, the rail "Tragedy's a' Comin'" was made bachelor to stream via the Spin magazine website,[10] followed by "HOINFODAMAN" on September 1 via the Rolling Stone site.[eleven] On September 6, Primus released a teaser trailer featuring audio clips from Green Naugahyde set to video footage of the "astronaut" graphic symbol from the album's artwork.[12] From September vii–12, the TV show South Park fabricated the entire album available for streaming to anybody who "liked" their Facebook page, including the iTunes bonus alive track "Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers".[13] [fourteen]
Music videos [edit]
Iii music videos have been released to promote the anthology. The first was made for the runway "Tragedy's a' Comin'"; co-directed by Claypool and Mark Kohr, who had previously directed a number of the ring'southward videos in the early 1990s. Information technology depicts kitchen staff preparing lobsters in a chic restaurant, which are then served to diners by the maître d', played past Kohr. The scene is keenly observed by one of the lobsters waiting to be cooked, and intercut with a fantasy sequence of that lobster imagining itself alone on a remote embankment, played by Claypool. Throughout the video, an anonymous figure is shown riding a horse while wearing a space suit, who eventually arrives at the restaurant and orders the lobster, which is then cooked and served to them. Other scenes include some of the restaurant's diners spontaneously breaking out into trip the light fantastic, joined by the maître d', and footage of the ring members playing their instruments individually, each superimposed with stylised outlines of the other members blithe over a panning photograph of more lobsters.
Claypool said of the video, "Musically, it's upbeat, just lyrically, the song is all about impending doom... But to depict that would take been the cliche thing to do, so we've got lobsters."[15] The video premiered on Nov 17, 2011 via the Independent Motion picture Channel website,[15] earlier beingness uploaded to Primus' official YouTube aqueduct on December fourteen.[16]
"Lee Van Cleef" was the 2d track to receive a music video, blithe past the award-winning Mixtape Society.[17] It begins past showing a decomposing trunk hanging from a tree, which twitches earlier falling to the ground in pieces. The corpse then reanimates and reassembles itself, and heads off towards a pocket-sized western town to seek revenge on their sheriff, who is repeatedly shown waiting in the jailhouse, polishing his revolver. Forth the style, the corpse horrifies and disgusts a number of civilians, and is revealed to have been a criminal identified equally "L.V.C." on his wanted poster. Equally the corpse reaches the jailhouse, he and the sheriff enter into a stand up-off, and though the sheriff draws first and fires several times, the corpse overpowers him. The sheriff is then strung upwardly past his ankles equally the corpse takes his badge and staggers off towards the sunset on the horizon, and it is revealed that the whole video was actually a film at a drive-in theater that is existence booed by the patrons, except for one young boy who applauds the picture... before getting his left arm blown all to hell.
The corpse and sheriff characters in the video resemble the Spaghetti Western actors Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood, respectively, equally they appeared in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy. The video premiered on May 21, 2012 via Conan O'Brien's website, TeamCoco.com,[17] and its associated YouTube channel.[xviii] It was eventually uploaded to the official YouTube aqueduct of ATO Records on June 27.[19]
"Jilly'south on Smack" was the third song from Green Naugahyde to be given a music video, this time directed by Jordan Copeland. It is fabricated upward of clips of the band playing alive on phase, intercut with establish footage of "family life, with a holiday theme."[20] Some clips that are repeatedly featured include children sledding down a snowy hill, parents organising wrapped presents around Christmas trees, and a drumming monkey toy among others in Santa Claus' workshop.
Claypool has described the lyrics of "Jilly's on Smack" as beingness virtually a friend who "disappeared into the globe of heroin," and has said that the use of found footage in the video reflects the song's theme. "Oftentimes information technology is the parents, grandparents, siblings, etc., that feel the brunt of the heartache as they expect at that empty dinner chair or Christmas stocking".[20] The video'southward director, Jordan Copeland, is the son of The Police force drummer Stewart Copeland and manager of the 2008 documentary Better Than Therapy about the Police Reunion Tour. The video premiered on December 19, 2012 via the Rolling Stone website.[xx]
In early 2013, Primus announced that they would be holding a contest for fans to make a music video for "HOINFODAMAN" on YouTube. Team HiHo were announced as the winners on March xviii via the band's official Facebook page.[21]
Way and themes [edit]
Jay Lane is said to take strongly influenced the band's sound, "harkening to the old Frizzle Fry days"[4] while also making them "way funkier than [they] e'er were".[22]
Claypool has described the new textile equally beingness reminiscent of Frizzle Fry, Primus' 1990 debut studio album, due largely to Lane'southward interest: "If I were to wait at all of our records, information technology seems like this is reminiscent of the early stuff. Patently, with Jay in that location's a newness to it, simply because he left the band right earlier nosotros recorded our first record, his approach has an eerie harkening to the former Frizzle Fry days."[4] [6] He said of the anthology's lyrical content:
[I]t's as well got 20 years of life experience on it – from many different angles. A song like "Jilly'southward on Smack" simply wouldn't have been written in the early Nineties, because we hadn't lost a friend to heroin addiction. A song like "Lee Van Cleef" which is reflective of my youth simply wouldn't have been written back then.[viii]
Claypool has stated that "Eyes of the Squirrel" is really a very stiff commentary on visual media. Television. It'due south just that the championship has the discussion 'squirrel' in it, [laughs] and that tends to throw people. In Primus, there'southward always something being spoken about via some colourful character, and a lot of times colourful character that volition distract people who don't scratch the surface."[23]
Claypool has stated that Lane has fabricated the band "funkier" than they previously had been: "I was embarrassed for many years when people would call Primus a funk band... Nosotros were never funky. We're funky now. With Jaysky in the band, I feel that nosotros're fashion funkier than we ever were... So on songs similar "Tragedy" and "Lee Van Cleef", I accept no problem saying we're funky, because Jaysky's the funkiest guy I've ever played with – and I've played with some very funky dudes!"[22]
Critical reception [edit]
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100[24] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [25] |
| Effect of Sound | [26] |
| IGN | 8.v/10[27] |
| At present | [28] |
| Paste | 8.0[29] |
| PopMatters | half-dozen/10[thirty] |
| Rolling Stone | [31] |
| The Skinny | [32] |
| Spin | 5/10[33] |
| U.s.a. Today |  [34] |
Green Naugahyde received generally positive reviews on Metacritic.[24]
In his review for Allmusic, Gregory Heaney commends the band for continually existence "able to push the envelope creatively", describing the new fabric equally "both technically dazzling and perfectly irreverent." He wrote that Lane's return has affected the band's sound, saying that "the album feels like Primus are getting back to basics... evoking the directness of Frizzle Fry... recapturing the magic of those earlier albums", and concludes that Green Naugahyde "will satisfy those in the know while continuing, every bit Primus always have, to bamboozle the uninitiated."[25] Blare Mag'due south Dan Rankin describes the album as "the sonic equivalent of beingness approached on a dark street by a strange panhandler beckoning you downwardly a night aisle", writing that "it's just the sort of feeling that Primus fans seek out... and precisely the kind of matter most non-fans would adopt to do without, thank you very much."[35]
Scott McLennan, for The Boston Globe, describes the album every bit having "all of the absurd contours and whimsical tones one expects" from a Primus record, though "overall, the writing is richer", and "the band's twisted humor keeps things provocative."[36] Result of Sound reviewer David Buchanan describes the new fabric equally both "funky nightmare rock" and "bouncy grooves straight from Wonka's boat ride." He wrote that "Dark-green Naugahyde couldn't be exclusively classified every bit a new folio in the band's history, because in that location is and then much of the by scrambled in, deliberately or otherwise", concluding that "much like Primus' musical territory, nosotros have yet some other gray area that defies the laws of tradition, which instead of reinventing the wheel gives it a fresh glaze of pigment."[26] IGN's Republic of chad Grischow describes the anthology equally "sharply written social commentary" wrapped up in "the ring'due south dark, bass-heavy make of sonic strange." He sums up by proverb that "in that location is nothing quite like Primus, and the first new album in over a decade reminds y'all what a gaping hole they create in the stone mural when they are missing."[27]
In his review for At present, Benjamin Boles wrote that "'Wacky' isn't supposed to be a good thing whatsoever more, but being unfashionable has never stopped bass guitar abuser Les Claypool before, and that'due south exactly why Light-green Naugahyde works." He concludes by describing the album every bit "a nifty introduction for new ears and a satisfying addition to the catalogue for long-time fans."[28] Reviewing the anthology for Paste, Ryan Carey describes Green Naugahyde as "a thoroughly enjoyable Primus album", writing that information technology is "possibly the beginning Primus album to avert settling into a subgenre, but rather taking from all the styles in Primus' back catalog... resulting in a significantly more solid album than many of their efforts", although "the flip-side to this buffet approach is that it'due south their first disc in a long while which doesn't take that one or ii tracks which simply annihilate your entire notion of what music can be."[29] For PopMatters, Chris Conaton describes the album equally sounding "pretty much exactly like what you'd expect a Primus album to audio like... Green Naugahyde is a perfectly serviceable Primus tape", writing that the album "relies a little likewise much on the band's by material for inspiration, but with Lane on the drums, the songs have a lot of bulldoze to them and Claypool and LaLonde are clearly having fun."[30] Bill Potato, for Relix, wrote that "for the first third of the album, [LaLonde] and [Lane] just seem to exist warming up", but that the overall album is "as accessible every bit it is willfully in-your-face up, this is vintage Primus."[37]
David Fricke's review for Rolling Rock sees him depict Dark-green Naugahyde as "more than a series of creepy pranks than a set of tunes", but wrote that the band themselves are "a tight knotty rhythm squad".[31] The Skinny's David Bowes describes the album every bit "a surprisingly consistent and rewarding mind", writing that "there'due south piffling here that wouldn't piece of work in the context of some freakish nightmare concoted past celebrated hoaxer P.T. Barnum."[32] Christopher R. Weingarten, for Spin, describes the album as "all rubbery... missing practically everything that made them unlikely belles of the Headbangers Ball: the maddening 11/4 prog mutations, the heavy-metal muscle, the dissonant oddball skronk." He attributes this to a lack of LaLonde's usual "atonal death-Zappa theatrics", writing that Claypool and Lane "ensure that the ring's goony cartoon-octopus funk abounds."[33] USA Today reviewer Brian Mansfield predicts that fans of Primus will appreciate the album, writing that the "slap-funk grooves hark back to the band'south 1990 debut, Frizzle Fry", but concedes that "those who don't appreciate [Claypool]'s complex chops and whimsy may find Light-green Naugahyde nigh unlistenable."[34]
Track listing [edit]
All lyrics are written by Claypool.
| No. | Title | Music | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Prelude to a Crawl" | Claypool | 1:20 |
| two. | "Hennepin Crawler" | Claypool, LaLonde, Lane | four:00 |
| 3. | "Terminal Salmon Man" (Fisherman's Chronicles, Function IV) | Claypool | 6:15 |
| 4. | "Eternal Consumption Engine" | LaLonde | 2:45 |
| v. | "Tragedy's a' Comin'" | Claypool, LaLonde, Lane | four:52 |
| half-dozen. | "Eyes of the Squirrel" | Claypool, Lane | 5:32 |
| 7. | "Jilly's on Smack" | Claypool, LaLonde | 6:36 |
| viii. | "Lee Van Cleef" | Claypool | iii:28 |
| nine. | "Moron TV" | Claypool, LaLonde, Lane | 4:38 |
| 10. | "Greenish Ranger" | Claypool, Lane | ii:02 |
| 11. | "HOINFODAMAN" | LaLonde | 3:00 |
| 12. | "Extinction Burst" | Claypool, LaLonde, Lane | 5:twenty |
| 13. | "Salmon Men" | Claypool | 0:58 |
| Full length: | 50:46 | ||
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 14. | "Those Damned Blueish-Collar Tweekers" (Recorded live on July 13th, 2011, in London, England) | 8:x |
| Total length: | 58:56 | |
Personnel [edit]
Chart history [edit]
Notes [edit]
- ^ In March 2011, Claypool said of the album "nosotros've finished it, we just need to smoothen it".[two] In May, he simply stated "it'southward finished".[3]
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South Park fans! Bank check out this exclusive Costless preview of Primus' new anthology Light-green Naugahyde! The album doesn't hit stores until September 13th, simply you can stream information technology for free, right here. Crank up the book and bank check information technology out!!
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Attention South Park rockers!! Today is your last chance to stream the new Primus album Green Naugahyde for FREE, exclusively here on our fan page!! Their album officially drops tomorrow, simply y'all fans can stream the whole thing now, right hither.
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