LA Priest, will release their new LP, Into The Sky, on August 28 via Domino Records. Today he is sharing another taste of the album with the opening track “Rayon,” the Follow up to previous singles “Into The Sky” and “Ever No”. Reflecting on the track, Sam Eastgate says: “Rayon is a beautiful word that sounds like a kind of mystical element, it’s a nice material that just happens to have a synthetic element.”

Into The Sky was co-written and co-produced by Alex Ridha aka: Boys Noize, guided by his custom-built Polygene synth and Gene 616 drum machine, as well as a vintage Korg 800 DV synthesizer, Eastgate sings of love and liberation.

“I’m not sure which way I’m going, but it’s exciting – that’s the spirit of this album,” says Eastgate of his latest LA Priest record. Eastgate continues, “For a long time, I wanted to make stuff for your mind. This one is more for the mind and the body. I made this record to dance to. I haven’t really done one that you could put on and dance all the way through before.” To that end, he worked closely with Ridha – the pair have known each other since his Late of the Pier days in the late 2000s, “back when we were all pretty much teenagers. The reason I thought of Alex is because he’s doing such an innovative job in electronic music and I’m revisiting a style I haven’t done for a long time.”

Into The Sky began in lockdown when the desire to keep active inspired Eastgate to set about making a dance record entirely from samples. He ended up so deep into the concept, devising his own style of house music, that he had to take a step back and “leave it on the shelf.” After putting it on pause, he travelled with his young family to Mexico and Costa Rica, got his guitar out and wrote Fase Luna, a collection of vivid folk songs that revealed a deeper connection to the natural world and local mythology.

The album is a chance to properly realise that electronic project. “I’ve always liked the homemade feel of very early techno, that’s why all the songs have the same drum machine and the same synth. How much ground can you cover with just a few sounds? How many different kinds of emotions can you show with one or two machines? That’s what I find exciting.”

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