Blitzen Trapper - Holy Smokes Future Jokes Scott

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

The first order of business upon setting up camp in Brooklyn's Figure 8 studios was to project giant colorful slides the band had made for each track

Other songs on the EP include the 17-minute guitar jam-for-single-mothers "Djohariah

Silver And Gold

7 The Silly Song (The Dwarfs' Yodel Song)

Troy Van Leeuwen (QOTSA

and to hold a magnifying glass over the notion of what intimacy can mean

Title song "Gallows Wine" rips psycho psychedelic

You worked hard to collect it

hilarious at times

1 We'll Be Back

with two of the most respected and innovative acts of their generation truly collaborating to create something new

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