Lol Tolhurst, Budgie, and Jacknife Lee have shared their debut album as a trio, Los Angeles.
A post-punk supergroup of sorts, drummers Tolhurst (formerly of The Cure) and Budgie (formerly of Siouxsie and the Banshees) teamed up with producer Lee for the project, which also features a who’s-who list of collaborators including U2’s The Edge, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, more.
And though the band admittedly “stole” some of the music on Los Angeles from their musical heroes and their own back catalogs, they made sure to nod to their punk descendants, too: “We asked Mark Bowen from IDLES to put some guitar on [‘Uh Oh’] and what we got was sonic destruction design courtesy of the dentist,” Tolhurst says in a press release, while Budgie says the tune draws from The Banshees’ own “Happy House.”
Stream Los Angeles below.
Tolhurst also recently announced a new book called GOTH: A History, which promises “a fascinating deep dive with stories and anecdotes from Tolhurst’s personal memories as well as the musicians, magicians, and artists who made goth an inevitable and enduring movement,” including The Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, and more.
Los Angeles Artwork:
Los Angeles Tracklist:
01. This Is What It Is (To Be Free) [feat. Bobby Gillespie]
02. Los Angeles [feat. James Murphy]
03. Uh Oh [feat. Arrow de Wilde and Mark Bowen (IDLES)]
04. Ghosted at Home [feat. Bobby Gillespie]
05. Train With No Station [feat. The Edge]
06. Bodies [feat. Lonnie Holley and Mary Lattimore]
07. Everything and Nothing
08. Travel Channel [feat. Pan Amsterdam]
09. Country of the Blind [feat. Bobby Gillespie]
10. The Past (Being Eaten)
11. We Got To Move [feat. Isaac Brock]
12. Noche Ocsura [feat. The Edge]
13. Skins [feat. James Murphy]