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“Have you heard the news?” “No.”
“All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out.”
• Second album/collaboration between Luke Haines (Auteurs/Baader/Meinhof/Black Box Recorder) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.)
• Peter Buck plays guitar and feeds LSD to a broken Moog synthesiser.
• Luke Haines sings songs about God, provides an occasional strum on his guitar and blows Pan’s flute.
• Scott McCaughey plays the bass and mellotron and
Linda Pitmon bangs the ritual drum.
• Lenny Kaye drops in and has a nightmare in the key of doo-wop.
During the last two years, over lockdowns, Luke Haines and Peter Buck retreated to a cold war bunker and recorded this double album/manifesto, monster-piece and masterpiece, in answer to the question: Why are all the Kids super bummed out?
‘All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out’ is available on double 12″ Vinyl, double CD and digital formats.
Luke Haines and Peter Buck will be playing US, European, and UK live dates early 2023.
Tracklist
CD/LP ONE
1 The British Army On LSD
2 The Skies Are Full Of Insane Machines
3 Sunstroke
4 45 Revolutions
5 Won’t Even Get Out Of Bed
6 Psychedelic Sitar Casual
7 Subterranean Earth Stomp
8 The Commies Are Coming
9 The First Time I Met God
CD/LP TWO
1 Minimalist House Burns
2 Exit Space (All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out)
3 Iranian Embassy Siege
4 You’re My Kind Of Guru
5 Flying People
6 Diary Of A Crap Artist
7 And We Will
8 Waiting For The UFOs