Longmont Potion Castle: Alive in ’25 (D.U. Records, 2025)

April 13, 2025 at 6:24 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Longmont Potion Castle: Alive in ’25

The new LPC doesn’t dip into political talk like the last one (I’m still cracking up over Reince Priebus and Wayne Freebus), but it contains a lot of flat-out absurdity and deception. He argues with an Australian dude at 3AM about a breadstick, and tries to collect unused drugs from people who claim not to use drugs but get extremely riled up and paranoid about the subject. He keeps insisting that a yellow-ish tomato-like fruit is called a permission, and asks record stores for albums by Brush (the Canadian band with a high-voiced singer who had a hit with “Huckleberry Finn”) and Toolbox (they have 15-minute songs and their singer’s name is Elmo). “Harps of Eternity” applies LPC’s love of jargon to Ren Faire subjects, and elsewhere he tells a guy with aquariums that fish can have a plankton spasm, otherwise known on the street as a leech belch. Also, he put contact mics in grandfather clocks and got them to play a wild version of “Won’t You Let Me Take You on a Sea Cruise”. Also, this one includes a 70-minute phone interview with a pair of writers from Amsterdam, recorded during the pandemic, and LPC wasn’t quite sure if he was going to be able to keep putting out albums, but obviously he has anyway. And there’s also mention about an Adult Swim show falling through because they wanted to use voice actors for legal reasons, and other things that indicate that how mainstream media doesn’t really see eye to eye with what LPC does. So any opportunity to gain some insight into his process is always fascinating.

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