LA Priest – aka the nomadic sorcerer Sam Eastgate - returns with maximalist new single, 'Into The Sky', his first new music in two years.
With its fluoro riffs and giddy energy, ‘Into The Sky’ captures the sensation of delirious euphoria and is an inviting taste of further new music to come.
Co-written and co-produced by his friend Alex Ridha – Boys Noize – who he’s known since his Late of the Pier days in the late 2000s, “back when we were all pretty much teenagers”, the pair worked on the song together in Ridha’s state-of-the-art laboratory near Lisbon, “a beautiful studio with windows looking out to nature and blinking lights and wires everywhere, full of equipment”. “The reason I thought of Alex is because he’s doing such an innovative job in electronic music and I’m revisiting a style I haven’t done for a long time,” says Eastgate.
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He shot the video out in the wilds of Joshua Tree, California, and in it, LA Priest is presented as a nearfuture outlaw operating a custom-built synth-bike – a renegade research participant whose mind has been reset but whose heart knows the truth – “something we might all identify with a bit these days”.
Sam Eastgate, AKA LA Priest, has built a reputation as a subversive, unpredictable musician, consistently innovating over the course of his work with his breakout band Late of the Pier, his cherished Soft Hair collaboration with Connan Mockasin and his solo work as LA Priest. Alongside the single announcement, he has confirmed a string of intimate shows for London, Paris and Berlin later this month.
