Sam Prekop & John McEntire, “Sons Of” (out July 2022)

First track is available, promos are out.

https://samprekop.bandcamp.com/track/a-ghost-at-noon

Look, Prekop and Sea & Cake itself never quite worked for me, what I’ve heard, while I’m a serious Tortoise fan who’s spent a lot of time with McEntire solo stuff.

What a pleasant surprise Sons Of is: no vocals (I don’t think?); just warm rubbery rhythmic explorations, sometimes earwormy that are easy to get lost in.

Oh, this is marvelous.

yeah this is stellar

nice! this is unexpected, preview is great. can't wait.

I like the first track. It's been interesting to see Prekop evolve as an electronic musician. Each release seems to get more and more focused (and I hear a lot McEntire's stamp on this too).

I thought the year in the title was 2002

time doesn't exist, so yes i see 2002 as well.

This sounds great.

TIOJR: Sam Prekop was born in the UK.

That’s pretty slick, hope there’s a vinyl release

no vinyl as yet, tho there was a limited-to-100 cassette that's already gone.

and yeah: this is good. vaguely reminiscent of caverns of anti-matter and other nameless 90s white label downtempo jams. already been bnm'd too. good lookin, phil.

the way this turns into a fake 80s r+b song @ ~10mins:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHGtJBQya3I

real good, real nice. prob fav moment on the whole thing.

hahaha love the album cover

oh man this is sweet

yeah its good. never in a million years would've guessed who made it

at some points, it feels like a mixtape of sea and cake demos. like i'm thinking of songs like "new patterns", "inn keeping", "fuller moon", "the invitations" — those songs they sometimes do that morph towards the end into synth vamps. this album is full of just those parts. it's really fun.

Just cottoned on to this album, I love it. Sorta Lindstrom vibes on some of it.

Weird. Can't find a copy in the UK (well, I've looked online in four shops).

I don’t know about LPs, but CDs were apparently limited to …. 100 copies! Yikes. Keeping my fingers crossed for a reissue, eventually.

It was the cassette that was limited to 100, the CD is "very limited" but the quantity was never clarified.

Ah, my mistake! Thanks.

Every time I play this I hear some new element.

I see Prekop has *another* album out https://samprekop.bandcamp.com/album/the-sparrow

The track that you can play is nice.

yep, he's been especially busy. looking forward to this one too!

this record is awesome

It really is

Weird. Convinced myself that I pre-ordered The Sparrow but can't find any evidence of this, at all! This happens more than it should ...

Oh, I did. Boomkat has it in the UK.

I just ordered the CD from Amoeba, $19.99, free shipping

Sons Of would make for a neat little 10" imo

dunno if you could get a 23 minute track on a 10"

you could do a 10" + 12". wonder how many albums actually get released that way.

Oh right

Just realized that (unless something changes between now and year’s end) I’m gonna wind up with two albums featuring members of Tortoise in my top ten album’s list

This probably has happened before, but it’s been a while

Stumbled upon this

http://vishkhanna.com/2022/07/21/ep-704-sam-prekop-and-john-mcentire/

I was very surprised to see that this wasn't nominated for the EOY poll, thought people were really into this record

it was, i voted it

Oh cool

i figured other folks would rep for it. i liked it, but was just into other stuff in the second half of the year.

but ya: it's fun, good, and worthwhile.

I'll admit it's a while since I've listened to it, but my memory of a golden summer evening with it was enough to win my vote.

It's on my ballot

So ... what other artists / records sound like this one? Enlighten me, please.

This?

Loving this

https://samprekop.bandcamp.com/album/a-yellow-robe-remixes

Hey, everyone?

CDs are back in stock!!!

This album still rules.

I just stumbled upon this, from 2019

https://samprekopjohnmcentiremapstation.bandcamp.com/track/kreuzung

I didnt realize they made a vinyl pressing of this, might have to grab that

I must check this out. It totally passed me by at the time. I've been listening to Prekop's "Comma" album a lot lately again. That was a lockdown favourite.

This allbum is so so good

yeah, it's one of my all-time "not my normal zone but i love this so, so much" albums.

co-sign. I'd normally listen to something like this once or twice, but this one really withstands unlimited repeats.
(another album in this sweet spot for me is also a tortoise-adjacent project: Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy)

thread revive prompted a revisit: yep, still good as heck. so satisfying too ― even for these guys, it's a peak.

cover also has me thinking of a thread idea: album covers that perfectly represent the music.

(maybe it's already been done?)

(also i may be speaking from experience: mute the proper audio + play this album as the soundtrack for a "funny cats" compilation youtube video. it works.)

found the companion album cover

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5f982b0be6fc05c7f21c7866/1:1/w_450%2Cc_limit/EverythingUNeedEP_Overmono.jpg

oh the vinyl has a bonus track after "Yellow Robe", it's about 5 minutes long and real jammy

hey friends,

don't know the most appropriate place to share this so putting it here. sam's limited vinyl-only score for the 2013 indie film pavilion. share around as you wish. sorry about all the vinyl surface noise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmKSfV4oSok
https://www.discogs.com/release/4751508-Sam-Prekop-Pavilion

riyl if you like the dreamiest+prettiest parts of old punch card. he sings on a few of the tracks.

loosely connected: since digging out my external drive and getting access back to some non-streaming music, i'm revisiting his japan-only ep from 2021 and the last two tracks are at least as good as anything on sons of.