Primus: Green Naugahyde – new album

Start your day on a happy note – listen to the new PRIMUS album, ‘Green Naugahyde’ - their first full-length album in over a decade - over at Spinner. ‘Green Naugahyde’ was produced and engineered by Les Claypool in his personal studio, Rancho Relaxo, in Northern California, and features Claypool, long-time guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Jay Lane. The album came out September 12th, 2011 in Europe and September 13th, 2011 in the U.S., on ATO Records and Claypool's own Pawn Song Records. Buy it here.

“ ‘Green Naugahyde’ expands on PRIMUS' incomparable sound and also sees them bringing it into the next millennium. It is a cerebral and complex album that, like all of the band's output, is teeming with the band’s signature blend of whimsy and underlying darkness,” [explains a press release]

The new offering was described as being reminiscent of PRIMUS' 1990's debut ‘Frizzle Fry’ by Claypool himself (him, being most admired for his music, humor, writing, wine-making and fly-fishing by the owner of this blog), mainly due to the return of one of the group's early drummers, Jay Lane:

“The rhythmic feel of it is very similar,” [explained the man in an interview conducted by Rolling Stone magazine] “But it’s also got 20 years of life experience on it – from many different angles. A song like ‘Jilly's on Smack’ just wouldn’t have been written in the early '90s, because we hadn’t lost a friend to heroin addiction. A song like ‘Lee Van Cleef’, which is reflective of my youth, just wouldn’t have been written back then. So there’s a lot of salt to it, yet there is this vigor of Jay's very rhythmic playing.”

The reason for 11-years-long dry season, Les Claypool entrusted with the SPIN magazine:

“PRIMUS had hit the creative wall by the end of the '90s and PRIMUS needed to sit.  Like a good compost, we needed to ferment and turn the manure and garbage into fine, nitrogen rich dirt.”

PRIMUS: Tragedy's a'Comin' – courtesy of ATO Records

PRIMUS: HOINFODAMAN – courtesy of ATO Records