Connan Mockasin and LA PRIEST join up as Soft Hair for collaborative record
30 August 2016, 15:07
| Written by
Laurence Day
Connan Mockasin and Sam Dust (LA PRIEST and Late Of The Pier) have announced a new collaborative record as Soft Hair.
The duo have also shared the first single, "Lying Has To Stop", and its accompanying Soft Hair/Joseph Bird-directed video.
A press release explains that songs for the project "were written and recorded in a wide array of locations using methods that neither Mockasin nor Dust had used previously."
Debut LP Soft Hair is out 28 October on Weird World.
"Lying Has To Stop" can be seen/heard below, with the LP's tracklist after.
Tracklist:
- Relaxed Lizard
- Jealous Lies
- i.v.
- Goood Sign
- Lying Has To Stop
- Japanese Love
- Alive Without Medicine
- l.i.v
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