LA Priest, the project of multi-artist Sam Eastgate, announces his new album Into The Sky, will arrive on August 28 via Domino Records. The recorded, co-written, co-produced and mixed by Eastgate’s old friend Alex Ridha, aka Boys Noize,  With the news, LA Priest has shared a new song, the cyber ballad “Ever No.”  The video for “Ever No” was shot and directed by Joe Bird Jr. in Joshua Tree, California, and reveals the creation of the futuristic outlaw and custom-built synth-bike rider who stars in the video for “Into The Sky.”

“I’m not sure which way I’m going, but it’s exciting – that’s the spirit of this album,” says Sam Eastgate of his latest LA Priest record,

The journey to 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.

Into The Sky 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.”

The recording of Into The Sky drew various LA Priest strands together, Eastgate used the first Gene drum machine that he built in 2016 and he also invested in a vintage Korg 800 DV synthesiser to compose most of the material. He had used that Korg on his first solo album, Inji, before selling it, to his regret. That Korg inspired the sound of the first polysynth he built, the Polygene, which he used to finish off the record, “sprinkling notes here and there”. The album artwork of the drum and the egg goes back even further, to when Eastgate was coming up with designs for the sleeve of Late of the Pier’s one and only album, Fantasy Black Channel. “A full-circle moment,” he says.

LA Priest
Into The Sky
Tracklisting
Domino Records

Rayon
No Other
Voices
Breathe
Ever No
Can’t Get Enough
Sailor
Into The Sky
Time
Message

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