‘World Ends Everyone Dies’ (feat. Paul Leary) by Spray Allen | New Album, ‘Needful Things’
Exclusive track premiere of ‘World Ends Everyone Dies’ by Spray Allen, taken from the upcoming album, ‘Needful Things’, out July 15th.
Spray Allen’s lysergic debut is a ferocious yet beautiful torrent of dynamic maximum rock energy, steeped in Southern California spiritual thirst and New York hard-lived clarity, with labyrinths of musical styles winding into singer-songwriter-driven power pop, dusky dub vibes, and desert-psyche ghostly hangovers.
“I believe the life we live is constantly evolving, wonderfully colorful, and unexpectedly fragile. The soul of every living thing feeds the next. We need to care of eachother, we need to take care of our planet. One day the sun will go out and this world will end. I feel fortunate that today is not that day. Thank you Paul Leary for your patience in bringing these thoughts to life in the form of a song.” -Lonner (singer)
Though packed with over two dozen tracks, ALL of the double album’s songs are diverse and showcase the triumphant, hard-bitten rock talents of drummer Wade Youman from Unwritten Law and bassist Eric Wilson from Sublime, fucking with the fresh creative chops of vocalist/guitarist Daniel Lonner and guitarist/vocalist Eric Sherman, both previously in Late Night Episode.
Now all residing in San Diego, after they lived together creating the massively impressive Spray Allen, which was recorded and mixed at Sonic Ranch in Texas with legendary producers Paul Leary of Butthole Surfers and Stu Brooks of Dub Trio. They received keyboard and horn arrangement assistance from No Doubt’s Gabrial McNair during the sessions, resulting in 21 songs (with skits!) of deep musical solidarity, between generations of innovative bicoastal talent.
The more refined psyche pop at the beginning of the album gets the masses moving inside then exploding into full cinematic glory and eventual Revelation. Singles heralding the album are ‘Heaven On My Shoulders’ and ‘World Ends Everyone Dies’, early in the sequence and full of vivid imagery fueled by addictive hooks and creative playing. Through a sonic smorgasbord of adult ear candy and gloaming experiments, the last half of the album expands the experience even more deeply. It all evokes neo-rock opera levels of epic outreach. Daniels’ lead vocals and the backing harmonies are alchemical and inventive on tracks like “Sabotage,” and the utterly anthemic ‘Homesick’ with its gorgeously original minor chord chorus.
On the way to getting the album done, Spray Allen released the video premiere of the strangely alluring ‘Stay Clean’ at Pancakes & Whiskey, which they said they were “instantly enamored of this supergroup. … Spray Allen brings a 90s vibe to the party that’s mixed with a 2021 attitude, and we’re all in.”
About the experience of making this album with his longtime collaborator and a bunch of really experienced innovators in the music world, Lonner explains: “I love great music. I love the way music makes you feel. I love the adventure that “following the music” can take you on; it’s relentless. I appreciate not just the sound of good music but how it gets made. Now I want to be in a legendary band.
The cast of people that went into making albums for Zeppelin, Hendrix, the Velvet Underground, the Stones, Joni Mitchell, the Byrds; that’s the company I want to be in. Every person from the drummer to the assistant engineer makes that what it is. That power struggle of everyone trying to get their best into the recording is what I love. You don’t really get that in modern pop music right now.”
Headline photo: Gabriela Kowalkowski/Drunk Polaroids
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this is fire!!