Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Share "El Evil" Lyric Video, Read Chicago Reader Exclusive | On US Tour Now, Tickets On Sale Now

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Share  "El Evil" Lyric Video, Read Chicago Reader Exclusive Feature  On US Tour Now, Tickets On Sale Now of the Last Human Being LP Out Now via AVANT NIGHT / Joyful Noise

LISTEN/PURCHASE & SHARE: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - of the Last Human Being LP Stream / Purchase LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - "El Evil" Stream / YouTube LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - "Hush, Hush" Stream / YouTube LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - "Burn Into Light" Stream / YouTube LISTEN/WATCH & SHARE: Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - "Salamander in Two Worlds" Stream / YouTube Sleepytime Gorilla Museum (SGM), the most gloriously uncategorizable American band in existence, has rebanded to complete a fourth studio album titled of the Last Human Being. The record finally arrives as the very first release on AVANT NIGHT – a new imprint headed by Nick Ohler and facilitated by Joyful Noise Recordings. Commemorating its arrival, the record's focus track is "El Evil," a glorious cacophony of bass, guitars and drums...and some violins, bells, yelling and growling. The song, for a late Tony Gallegos, a.k.a. Bunny Man, feels like a battle cry, with calls of "make room for Bunny Man!". Nils Frykdahl recalls, "The refrain of 'El Evil' is borrowed from the Idiot Flesh song 'Let the Dog Sing' (recorded in 1998 but soon to be released). At a show in Fresno, Tony had joined us in his Bunny Man costume. A drunken bar patron kept yelling 'Hey, let the dog sing!' Only near the end of the show did we realize he thought Tony was a dog. Gracias to his family in Norwalk for years of hospitality. Nothing will outshine…" Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - "El Evil" [LYRIC VIDEO] Back in 2011, amid cries of protest and disbelief, the Museum closed its doors and disbanded indefinitely. Persistent rumors about a posthumous album flew across Sleepytime’s global community for years before eventually settling into the tall grass of time like a swarm of cicadas at summer’s end. "Sperm swam.  Eggs applauded.  Babies hatched.  Other bands were born," recalls curator Matthias Bossi. Labels and alliances perished. Ailments festered. Several beloved friends and family members passed away. “The SGM fields lay fallow for a decade and more.” Only now, a baker’s dozen years later, is the buzz rising once again.  The Museum — comprised of multi-instrumentalists and rotating vocalists Nils Frykdahl, Carla Kihlstedt, Michael “Iago” Mellender, Matthias Bossi, and Dan Rathbun — plays an arsenal of instruments ranging from the somewhat standard (drums, electric guitars, bass, electric violin) to the rare (bass harmonica, nyckelharpa, marxophone) to the homemade (Slide-Piano Log, Electric Pancreas, Pedal-Action Wiggler). The group has consistently evaded easy categorization, garnering accolades from across the aisles of contemporary classical music, prog rock, industrial music, metal, avant-garde improv, and more. Their music, in turns bashing and bucolic, enveloping and unsettling, tends towards long-form epics interspersed with mysterious field recordings.  “As this slow-rolling planetwide Anthropocene Extinction event deepens, Sleepytime’s work has only grown more resonant, more prescient,” offers Mer Yayanos, current symposiarch and secretary of the Museum’s long standing social math club, the John Kane Society. “What better time for them to Bring Back the Apocalypse than right now, with a new full-length record that integrates the past and the future?”  "A kind of buzzing warmth stirs in my belly,” says SGM co-founder Carla Kihlstedt. “Partly, it’s the re-kindling of old friendships, but it’s also the connectivity of reigniting a community, an ethos, and a commitment to creative and independent expression, and to vibrant collectivism. I believe in every messy molecule of SGM, from its many heads to its stinky toes, from its music to its wandering soul. How lucky are we to return to the hive after all these years?!”  Rock against rock and rejoice! The Museum’s long-languishing Last Human Being will soon see the light of day!   Be sure to stay tuned for more announcements over the coming weeks.  AMUGATION. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum of the Last Human Being - TRACKLISTING 01. Salamander In Two Worlds 02. Fanfare for the Last Human Being 03. El Evil 04. Bells for Kith and Kin 05. Silverfish 06. S.P.Q.R. 07. We Must Know More 08. The Gift 09. Hush, Hush 10. Save It! 11. Burn Into Light 12. Old Grey Heron 13. Rose-Colored Song Alongside the release of their long-awaited album, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum has embarked on a lengthy 2024 tour, including two nights at the legendary Stanley Hotel (yes, the very location where The Shining was filmed). Find more information and tickets HERE. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - LIVE 02/29 - Arcata, CA - Humbrews    03/01 - Eugene, OR - WOW Hall w/ Kayo Dot, Todd Sickafoose’s CITAOS   03/02 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater w/ Kayo Dot, Peculiar Pretzelmen   03/03 - Seattle, WA - Crocodile w/ Kayo Dot, Peculiar Pretzelmen   03/04 - Boise, ID - Treefort Music Hallw/ Kayo Dot   03/05 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall w/ Red Bennies, Purr Bats   03/07 - Denver, CO - The Bluebird w/ Dreadnought, Surplus 1980 (feat. Moe Staiano)   03/08 - Estes Park, CO - The Stanley Hotel w/ Dreadnought, Surplus 1980 (feat. Moe Staiano), The Parlour Trick    03/09 - Estes Park, CO - The Stanley Hotel w/ In the Company of Serpents, Playground Ensemble, The Parlour Trick, Arone Dyer’s Dronechoir   03/11 - Kansas City, MO - Record Bar w/ Season To Risk   03/12 - Minneapolis, MN - The Fine Line w/ Dead Rider, The Kind City   03/13 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall w/ Dead Rider, Cheer-Accident   03/14 - Indianapolis, IN - Irving Theater w/ Cheer-Accident, Isolation Tank Ensemble   03/15 - Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom w/ Lung, Isolation Tank Ensemble   03/16 - Philadelphia, PA - Underground Arts w/ Zöe Keating, Stinking Lizaveta   03/17 - Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair w/ Singer Mali, Rong   03/18 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewherew/ Arone Dyer, Knifethrower   03/19 - Baltimore, MD - The Ottobar w/ Titan to Tachyons   03/20 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle w/ Titan to Tachyons, Toybox Theatre   03/21-24 - Knoxville, TN - BIG EARS FESTIVAL   03/25 - Atlanta, GA - Terminal West w/ Faun Fables, The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir    03/26 - Winter Park, FL - Conduit w/ Faun Fables, Indorphine, Flagman   03/27 - Tampa, FL - Orpheum w/ Faun Fables, Indorphine, Flagman   03/28 - New Orleans, LA - Howlin’ Wolf w/ Faun Fables, Anareta   03/29 - Houston, TX - Secret Group w/ Faun Fables, Oceans of Slumber   03/30 - Austin, TX - The Mohawk w/  Faun Fables, Thor Harris Duo, Oceans of Slumber, Opposite Day, The Parlour Trick    03-31 - Dallas, TX - Trees w/ Pinkish Black, Faun Fables   04/02 - Albuquerque, NM - Sister Bar w/ Faun Fables   04/03 - Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom w/ Faun Fables, Meet the Sun   04/04 - Tucson, AZ - 191 Toole w/ Faun Fables, Skin Theory   04/05 - Los Angeles, CA - The Fonda Theatre w/ Faun Fables   04/06 - Berkeley, CA - The UC Theatre w/ Faun Fables, Cassette Prophet, Surplus 1980, Kitka