Release Date: 28 June 2019
Label: Big Scary Monsters
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 5060366787590
Genres: Rock
Description
Cosmic Thrill Seekers, the new record from Albany punk rock band Prince Daddy & the Hyena, is many things. It is an odyssey of epic, The Monitor-esque proportions, a great, galloping sonic roadtrip across space and time and Albany, boomeranging around a horn of punk, pop, indie, garage rock, and orchestral, Queen-style arrangements and theatrics; it is an exploration of the fall-out after an acid trip, manic self-destruction, bottoming-out and recovering, and then slipping again; it is a candid, acute documentation of frontperson Kory Gregory's cyclical mental health states as told through three acts and 14 songs/chapters; it is an existential presentation of eternal return theory, a victory via surrender to impermanence; and perhaps most of all, it is about Dorothy Gale and The Wizard Of Oz."Dorothy was the OG cosmic thrill seeker," Gregory says. "Dorothy kind of encompasses everything I was trying to get at."There are three acts in Cosmic Thrill Seekers. Gregory explains, "Act One is The Heart, which is the Tin Man. Act Two is The Brain, which is the Scarecrow, and Act Three is The Roar, which is the Lion." Each act explores a stage in Gregory's mental health. "I remember watching the Wizard of Oz one time, and noticing some weird kind of parallels between the cyclical nature of my mental health and that movie," he says. "My mental health rotates and jumps from one stage to the next, and then repeats itself." The closing moments of Cosmic Thrill Seekers reflect this, as the outro to the last track, "The Wacky Misadventures of the Passenger," morphs into the first muted notes of opener "I Lost My Life."Gregory's assessment of his mental health is a process that's coded into CTS' DNA. "Observing my mental health for four years kind of gave me enough to work with to write this album," Gregory continues. He wrote the entire record-music and lyrics-in solitude over a four year period in a closet in his bedroom. No one heard any of it until it was finished and ready to record-not even bandmates Cam, Zak, and Da
Tracklisting
Reuben
Lambrini Girls
Three Trapped Tigers
Woahnows
Meet Me In St Louis
Weakened Friends
Great Grandpa
Ian Miles
Various Artists
Mom Jeans.
Prince Daddy & the Hyena
Prince Daddy & The Hyena
