🚨🚨 WE CONTAIN MULTITUDES (EX-BITCH MAGNET) ANNOUNCE DEBUT LP - ‘MINAKO’ OUT JUNE 25 ON EXPERT WORK RECORDS

Featuring two members of Bitch Magnet—Jon Fine (Vineland, Coptic Light, Don Caballero) and Orestes Morfín (Walt Mink, God Rifle, Bored Spies) alongside Simon Kobayashi (smallgang, Hurtling), the far-ranging trio presents its long-in-the-making debut album.

We Contain Multitudes formed in 2017, which means it’s taken a very long time for them to actually release a record.

Jon and Orestes first played together at Oberlin College in 1987 in Bitch Magnet, an influential underground band that released three albums before splitting in 1990. After reuniting for tours in 2011-2012, they pursued separate musical paths - Jon with Vineland and Coptic Light, Orestes with God Rifle and other bands.

They met Simon, a UK-based musician, when his band opened for Bitch Magnet in London.

But Jon lives in New York City, Orestes lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Simon lives in the UK. Also there was this whole COVID thing, which made getting together in the same room to play music rather complex for a while.

Minako is a name that means ‘beautiful child’ in Japanese. The album is at least partly named for the city pop vocalist Minako Yoshida. (Simon, whose father is Japanese, came up with it.)

“It took us a long time to finish the songs on this album,” admits Jon.

“If I’d had to write lyrics, we wouldn’t have finished this record until 2030, at least, and Expert Work would be even more disappointed with us than they already are.”

He continues, more seriously this time:

“It was a great gift to be able to build these songs for years, in a kind of clandestine and invisible way. It feels like we’ve been keeping a secret from everyone, and we’re so fucking psyched to share it—finally!—with the world.”

We Contain Multitudes’ music is heavy and intricate. At times, Minako goes far deeper into psychedelic, repetitive, and minimal/maximalist realms than anything these guys’ prior bands have done.

Discussing the opening single, Can We Just Not ?, Jon explains: “You would not believe how many guitar tracks—and how many different guitars—are on “Can We Just Not?”"

The band's songwriting typically begins with Jon's riffs shared digitally, which are later refined during in-person rehearsals. Simon contributes spontaneous bass lines (like in "We Are All Fucked"), while Orestes provides beats for Jon and Simon to develop.

Minako was recorded by Abe Seiferth and produced by Seiferth and the band. The double LP is coming out this June 25 via Expert Work Records. The limited edition of 300 including 50 on orange vinyl is available for pre-order now!

Track-list:
1. Minako
2. Can We Just Not?
3. D9
4. We Are All Fucked
5. Bathroom Drugs
6. Jeitinho
7. Atkins

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✅🎧 LISTEN TO CAN WE JUST NOT? HERE