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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelYep, Yep Roc Records
UPC0634457272521
eBay Product ID (ePID)2317115420
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2020
GenreRock
ArtistBlitzen Trapper
Release TitleHoly Smokes Future Jokes
Dimensions
Item Height0.29 in
Item Weight0.09 lb
Item Length5.42 in
Item Width5.01 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks10
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Baptismal 1.2 Bardo’s Light (Ouija, Ouija) 1.3 Don’t Let Me Run 1.4 Magical Thinking 1.5 Masonic Temple Microdose #1 1.6 Requiem 1.7 Holy Smokes Future Jokes 1.8 Sons and Unwed Mothers 1.9 Dead Billie Jean 1.10 Hazy Morning
Notes2020 release. Singer-songwriters have been tackling existential questions about life and death since time immemorial' or at least the 1960s. But when it came to Blitzen Trapper's newest album, Holy Smokes Future Jokes, front man Eric Earley looked beyond mere existence - or even the end of it - to contend with grander cosmic explorations: namely, the intermediate period between a person's separate lives on earth, 'and what it means to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth,' he explains. Inspired by George Saunders' 2017 experimental tome, Lincoln in the Bardo and the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Earley's lyrics take the listener on a wild and dramatic journey through rivers of waist-high water in the aftermath of a tragic car wreck and the hazy morning before a murderous moment, and from getting blitzed to the point of extinction inside a masonic temple to a stop for chips and dip before the apocalypse.