After the Astronaut: Opaque White Vinyl LP

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Label: Sunset Blvd. Records
Release Date: 26th June

The great lost Butthole Surfers album finally sees the light. Gotta love it when a chaotic experimental creatively uncompromising rock band get signed to a major and the big-wigs are suddenly surprised when psychedelic art-rock collective are strangely creatively uncompromising. Oddly, with elements of trip hop meets metal and electronic dance grooves, this record is super 1998 and coulda been massive.

Riding the least likely commercial success of the 90s with Modern Rock chart topper "Pepper," Austin odd rockers Butthole Surfers returned to the studio in 1998 for the followup, After The Astronaut. Leaning further into experiments with electronics, hip-hop, acid grooves, and the otherwise unusual, the result is a dizzying orbital trip expanding the idea of what's possible in rock music. Disputes between the Butthole Surfers and Capitol Records left the album unreleased, while the band regrouped and re-recorded some of the material for 2001's Weird Revolution, released through Hollywood Records. After The Astronaut collected dust, eventually developing a mythic status. A quarter century later, ButtholeSurfers are realizing their vision for After The Astronaut. Newly mixed by guitarist/producer Paul Leary, After The Astronaut corrects the record on the band's activity in the late 90s with a bold, idiosyncratic evolution of their sun-fried psychedelia.