Eccentrics, rejoice—Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s doors are open to the public once again! With their new album, of the Last Human Being, the recently We interviewed Sleepytime Gorilla Museum about their new album.
, the recently reactivated band returns to the road and to the maximalist, forward-thinking rock music that made them cult heroes in the 2000s.
Entering Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s orbit can feel a bit like climbing inside a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum song. We met up on their tour bus, an old green Greyhound that’s been customized by the band’s bassist and resident mad scientist, Dan Rathbun. Over the course of our conversation, a revolving cast of supporting characters—dancers, academics, the members’ own children—clambered onto the bus to weigh in on a question or two before vanishing.
“I think there’s some kind of natural balance,” Kihlstedt says. “We’re on a seesaw, and there is some kind of natural balance between them, which sometimes implies a momentary imbalance.” Last year, the wheels finally started turning again. Sleepytime launched a Kickstarter campaign to help get the album and film across the finish line, and they started figuring out how they could exist as a bicoastal band. Songs were completed remotely, a first in Sleepytime history, and a new record deal was signed with the emergent Avant Night Records. A plan to return to the live stage was hatched.
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