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Smoking Popes with Lovely Stuff

Posted by Loren on November 26, 2024

Smoking Popes with Lovely Stuff
Smoking Popes with Lovely Stuff

Smoking Popes have an update...next year. The band will return to action in 2025, releasing their first studio album in seven years, ,a follow-up to 2018's Into The Agony. The new record is titled Lovely Stuff and will release in March via Anxious & Angry.

“It took us about two years to make this record,” vocalist Josh Caterer says in a press release. “We went into the studio with just two songs in the summer of 2022, then I kept writing and we'd go back every few months and record another couple songs. It was a long process because we were doing it all piecemeal, but I think the final product has a cohesive energy. The songs all feel connected.”

Two singles have already released online: “Madison” and “Golden Moment."

Smoking Popes with Lovely Stuff
Smoking Popes with Lovely Stuff

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