Following the release of his acclaimed third studio album, Fase Luna, last year, LA Priest, aka Sam Eastgate, today announces his new EP, La Fusion – due out 3rd May via Domino.
Alongside the announcement today he releases “City Warm Heart”; laced with LA Priest’s trademark groove and mixed by French touch powerhouse Alan Braxe, the track is filled with a warm optimism for the future whilst possessing a nostalgic...
“It’s You is an excellent slice of warped, slo-mo funk.” – The New Cue
“A welcome return to what LA Priest does best." – Consequence of Sound
Following the release of the funked-up love song “It’s You”, the announcement of his third studio album, Fase Luna (May 5th) and on today’s Pink Full Moon, today LA...
LA Priest, aka Sam Eastgate, today announces his ocean-inspired, wobbly-pop filled third album, Fase Luna – due for release May 5th via Domino. Following 2020’s GENE, named after a modular drum machine that Sam designed using 150 electrical circuits he’d built himself, Fase Luna strips things back to little more than Sam and his guitar: nine sunshine-streaked tracks of pure bliss.
Alongside the announce today, the first taster from the...
Following the release of his recent album GENE, LA Priest has enlisted the legendary Belgian duo, Soulwax to deliver the remix treatment for “What Moves”. With the original racking up over a million streams globally, plus reaching playlist status at both BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6Music, Soulwax have injected their trademark up-beat synth-work to “What Moves”, solidifying the track’s deep earworm status.
With the new album GENEout this Friday, LA Priest has just shared the video for new track “Rubber Sky”. The new track is a slice of cosmic-laden funk from LA Priest which reflects on his solitary approach to creating music, acting somewhat aptly as a “loner anthem”. “Rubber Sky” also sees GENE (the custom built drum machine) coming to life, being used to its full potential.
With just over a month until the release of new album GENE, Sam Eastgate AKA LA Priest has shared new single, “Beginning”. Marking a dazzling opening to GENE, “Beginning” hits with an inescapable melody and the first introduction to GENE, the custom built drum machine on which the album was made. As LA Priest says: “…and in the beginning there were drums and LA Priest said, ‘Let there be fire.’”...
Emerging from an all-too-long nomadic hibernation, LA Priest has returned with news of GENE, his forthcoming second album, due for release on 24th April 2020. Along with news of GENE, LA Priest has shared “What Moves” the first track from the album. Directed by LA Priest himself, the video for “What Moves?” is available to watch now.
Inji, released on 29th June 2015, is the debut solo album by Sam Dust, AKA LA PRIEST. Across its ten audaciously imaginative tracks, Inji reasserts Dust as a truly idiosyncratic voice in British music, applying the same frantically eclectic, mischievous and wilfully absurd spirit of his previous band, the beloved Late of the Pier, to ever more nuanced and affecting songwriting and composition. Listen to the single, “Party Zute /...
