LA Priest: Into The Sky (clear vinyl) [DOMINO]

Why you'll love it

A clear vinyl pressing of LA Priest's new album on Domino. Sam Eastgate, once of Late Of The Pier and half of Soft Hair, builds his songs on homemade machines, and the title track got an official video.

This edition

Clear vinyl
Ten tracks across two sides, from "Rayon" to "Message"

About the album

LA Priest is Sam Eastgate, who first turned heads as the frontman of the wonky English dance-punk band Late Of The Pier and later made a cult record with Connan Mockasin as Soft Hair. On his own he works slowly and builds a lot of his gear himself, and his records have the loose, woozy feel of someone experimenting in a shed until something wonderful happens.

Into The Sky keeps that charm: falsetto vocals, rubbery bass and drum machines with a mind of their own, on "Rayon", "No Other" and "Can't Get Enough", with the title track lifting off right where you'd hope. It's funk for people who like their grooves a little bit off-centre. The machines are homemade; the hooks, as far as we can tell, came from somewhere else entirely.