LA Priest Announces New EP, Shares Video For New Song 'City Warm Heart'
La Fusion The EP is due for release on May 3 via Domino
02 April 2024
Photo: Joseph Bird Jr
LA Priest (aka England's Sam Eastgate) has announced a new EP, La Fusionand shared his first single, “City Warm Heart,” via a music video. La Fusion will be released on May 3 via Domino. Check out the new single below, followed by the EP's tracklist and cover, as well as LA Priest's upcoming tour dates.
“I wrote this song in the jungle of Costa Rica as I envisioned myself returning to tour the cities of the world again,” Eastgate says in a press release. “It's a mantra to face the outside world from somewhere like this.”
Joseph Bird Jr directed the video for “City Warm Heart”. Eastgate said about it in the press release: “I thought it would be nice to show a bit of my recordings and the way I record a song. This video is really just what I did while recreating this song as best I could, so it's more of an honest video than my usual kind.”
The EP is the follow-up to the 2023 album, Fase Luna and 2020 GENE. In 2016 Eastgate teamed up with New Zealand's Connan Mockasin to form Soft Hair and release their self-titled debut. Eastgate was also previously on Late of the Pier.
The new EP was written at the end of Eastgate's time living in the jungles of Costa Rica, where he wrote most of Fase Luna, and was recorded upon his return to society, in Wales. He recorded it in a studio in his garden shed.
“You can't combine fusion with anything else,” says Eastgate. “Fusion itself is the blending of realities. These are ideas I could not have captured in the jungle. Perhaps they are songs of the metropolis. I took the ideas written outside looking in and finished them inside thinking outside.”
Read our 2015 interview with LA Priest.
La Fusion EP Track List:
1. Apple
2. City Warm Heart
3. Very cool
4. Love 2 Learn
LA Priest tour Dates:
May 1 – Yard Club, Cologne, DE
May 2 – Cactus Café, Bruges, BE
May 4 – Bogen F, Zurich, CH
May 6 – La Maroquinerie, Paris, FR
May 7 – Bitterzoet, Amsterdam, NL
June 1 – White Hotel, Manchester, UK
June 2 – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
June 3 – Stereo, Glasgow, UK
June 5 – Patterns, Brighton, UK
June 6 – Studio 9294, London, UK
June 7 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
June 8 – Strange Brew, Bristol, UK
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