Today Coffin Prick shares the single “Soap” ahead of his new album, Loose Enchantment, due May 16 on Temporal Drift . You can pre-order the LP now. Coffin Prick will open for Cap’n Jazz on select dates this July (full tour dates listed below).
Reflecting on the song Ryan Weinstein/Coffin Prick says “This tune, a reconstructed skeleton, was first conceived of a few years before I recorded the version you’re hearing for yourself now. Turned inside out from its original instrumental form, a vocal song of secrets tightly held in broken hands! Featuring the first appearance of acoustic drumming on a Coffin Prick number (Ably handled by CP live-band drum man, Alejandro Salazar-Dyer), “Soap” is my ode to the inexplicable allure and dichotomy of disappearing AND being found out. A way of scrubbing the record clean. Keeping clean is more than mere allusion. The only “guitar solo” on the album. Yes…You read that right.”Loose Enchantment, this latest Coffin Prick record, is music conceived of in a different frame of mind for humans living in a world nearly-disenchanted with itself. The album consists of eleven new pieces of music recorded by Coffin Prick himself at his home in Los Angeles, a great city of quicksand-like commitments and those who love them enough to uphold the ends of their collective bargains. A record as much about the confusion of modern life as it is endeavored to expose the lusts in the very loins of creation. Sounds enchanting enough for you? Let’s look a little more closely…
Coffin Prick primarily records on his own, though occasionally receives great collaborative assistance from a sometimes-silent and shadowy partner, Pancho. When the time is right, he leans on a host of harmonically sympathetic luminaries that exist in and out of his immediate musical community, including Steven Brown (Tuxedomoon), Alejandro Salazar-Dyer (Rincs), Kathy Lea (Soft Location), John Herndon (Tortoise), and Aaron Fernandez Olson (LA Takedown). These musical endeavors implement elements of the technologically advanced and the undeniably broken. Equally informed by the not-so-distant past as imaginary future scenarios, his ongoing recorded life continues to mine this deep well. Not so much a “solo” performer as an idea, Coffin Prick is a malleable form whose potential is concurrently cemented and unknown.
On the heels of 2023’s Laughing (Sophomore Lounge), Coffin Prick got busy. And fast. Playing shows into the year with a newly minted live band, while simultaneously working day and night in his home studio laying the ground for what would become Loose Enchantment. Whereas he was essentially a recording know-nothing at the inception of his last LP, he’d learned a thing or two about better capturing his ideas by this point, taking the sidesteps and victories born of the experience Laughing provided and turning the bright lights on them. As many of Los Angeles’s drivers choose to do, it was time to take some surface roads. Odes to self-delusion, the mysteries of creation, cleanliness, and the secrets in other people’s lives.
A little Loose Enchantment for everyone, basically.
TOUR DATES
May 16, 2025 – 2220 Arts & Archives – Los Angeles, CA (album release show)
Jul 5, 2025 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL #
Jul 6, 2025 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL #
Jul 9, 2025 – Black Cat – Washington DC #
Jul 10, 2025 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA #
Jul 11, 2025 – Royale – Boston, MA #
Jul 12, 2025 – Warsaw – New York, NY #
Jul 13, 2025 – Warsaw – New York, NY #
Jul 25, 2025 – Neumos – Seattle, WA #
# = supporting Cap’n Jazz
