PRIMUS To Release Conspiranoid EP This Month; "Conspiranoia" Video Streaming

23:20 Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Consequence Of Sound is exclusively reporting that Primus will release a new three-track EP, entitled Conspiranoid, on April 22 via ATO Records. A music video for the 11-minute title track can be viewed below.

As frontman Les Claypool explains to Consequence, the genesis for the single and its accompanying B-sides came from some observations scribbled down in a notebook. “I’d been itching to record an opus - basically a long, winding, bastard of a song, reminiscent of some of the compositions I cut my teeth (or ears) on, in my music-hungry adolescence,” he recalls. “‘Conspiranoia’ was sprouted from a seed I had planted in my notebook a year or so ago — a few lines commenting on the mental state of the contemporary world.”

He continues, “I watched the distrust and divide grow between friends, colleagues, relatives, and the general population because of the consumption and digesting of disinformation, misinformation, warped information, and flat-out fairy tales being perpetuated by anyone with a slight hint of web design aptitude.”