Tolhurst Lol X Budgie X Jacknife Lee

Los Angeles

Label: Play It Again Sam

Genre: Rock / Pop

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The three-way ‘Los Angeles’ collaboration was born out of a curiosity which just wouldn’t die. Made up of two of the most illustrious and inventive drummers of the post-punk era, The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst, and Budgie from Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Creatures, along with stellar producer and multi-instrumentalist Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee, this unlikely alt-supergroup have spent the last four years spiriting up one of the most extraordinary albums to appear in 2023.

Perusing the tracklist, with its guest credits for, amongst others, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Bobby Gillespie, Civil Rights avant-gardist Lonnie Holley, Starcrawler wildchild Arrow de Wilde and The Edge from U2, you may rightly wonder just what the 13-track long-player holds in store.

The answer: a hard-hitting and compulsively exploratory 55-minute electronic mindscrew, founded on unrivalled rhythmic expertise, fleshed out with an armoury of synths, guitars (Jacknife’s forte) and supplementary percussion, often overlaid with elite-class strings and brass, then universally twisted, manipulated and quite masterfully sculpted by Lee, with his super-producer’s hat on.

THE BAND

Lol Tolhurst – Co founder and drummer of The Cure
Budgie – Drummer for Siouxsie and the Banshees
Jacknife Lee – Produced albums for U2, The Killers, R.E.M., Robbie Williams, Snow Patrol, Bloc Party and more…

FEATURED ARTISTS

James Murphy – Founder and lead singer of LCD Soundsystem
The Edge – Lead guitarist, keyboardist of U2
Isaac Brock – Lead singer and guitarist of Modest Mouse
Bobby Gillespie – Founder and lead singer of Primal Scream
Mark Bowen – Guitarist of IDLES
and… Pan Amsterdam, Arrow de Wilde, Mary Lattimore, Davide Rossi, Lonnie Holley