MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN Posts His Listening Map For The Sessions Of PUSCIFER’s New Album

Anybody attempting to guess the musical DNA behind Puscifer‘s subsequent file, Regular Is not (due February 6), now has a clearer window into the band’s inventive headspace. The group has been rolling out the playlists they leaned on throughout the writing and recording of their fifth studio album.

On December 2, the highlight shifted to Maynard James Keenan, who shared his private listening stack from the classes. The distinction between his picks and people of his bandmates is fairly placing. Whereas Carina Spherical and Mat Mitchell apparently stored their picks tighter and extra minimal, Keenan opted for a a lot bigger sweep: an 80-song unfold.

The alternatives transfer throughout a number of acquainted corners of other music historical past. You may spot the late-’90s industrial pull of 9 Inch Nails, the extra pop fringe of Tears For Fears, and the darkwave landscapes of Lifeless Can Dance. However the strongest thread working via the set seems to be an everlasting love for ’80s post-punk, which dominates a lot of the lineup.

Under is the total rundown of what Keenan reportedly had on repeat throughout the Regular Is not inventive stretch:

1. Tones On Tail – “Means Of Escape”
2. Lords Of The New Church – “Russian Roulette”
3. Depeche Mode – “In Your Room”
4. Tones On Tail – “You, The Night time And The Music”
5. Bauhaus – “She’s In Events”
6. Artwork Of Noise – “Shut (To The Edit)”
7. Tears For Fears – “Undergo The Kids”
8. Bauhaus – “Slice Of Life”
9. The Smiths – “What Distinction Does It Make?” (John Peel Session, 5/18/83)
10. The Treatment – “Lovesong”
11. Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Israel” (7″ single model)
12. The Church – “Underneath The Milky Approach”
13. 9 Inch Nails – “Into The Void”
14. The Smiths – “The Headmaster Ritual”
15. Tones On Tail – “Now We Lustre”
16. The Treatment – “Fascination Road”
17. Christian Demise – “Non secular Cramp” (Mission UK Combine)
18. Bauhaus – “King Volcano”
19. Killing Joke – “Eighties
20. The Damned – “Grimly Fiendish”
21. Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Christine”
22. Einstürzende Neubauten – “Die Interimsliebenden”
23. Killing Joke – “Kings And Queens”
24. The Smiths – “How Quickly Is Now?”
25. 9 Inch Nails – “The Day The World Went Away”
26. Cocteau Twins – “Wax And Wane”
27. Pleasure Division – “Love Will Tear Us Aside”
28. Lifeless Can Dance – “Chant Of The Paladin”
29. The Treatment – “Photos Of You”
30. Cocteau Twins – “Pandora”
31. Swans – “Coward”
32. Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Spellbound”
33. The Sisters Of Mercy – “The Corrosion”
34. Depeche Mode – “I Really feel You”
35. Tones On Tail – “Go!”
36. Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Arabian Knights”
37. Tones On Tail – “Shakes”
38. Cocteau Twins – “Lorelei”
39. Tones On Tail – “Rain”
40. Lifeless Can Dance – “The Spider’s Stratagem”
41. New Order – “Blue Monday”
42. Killing Joke – “Pressure”
43. Christian Demise – “Sleepwalk”
44. The Sisters Of Mercy – “Lucretia My Reflection”
45. Pleasure Division – “Transmission”
46. Lords Of The New Church – “Open Your Eyes”
47. The Smiths – “Bigmouth Strikes Once more”
48. Tones On Tail – “Christian Says”
49. Tones On Tail – “O.Okay. This Is The Pops”
50. Bauhaus – “Rosegarden Funeral Of Sores”
51. Depeche Mode – “By no means Let Me Down Once more”
52. Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Kiss Them For Me”
53. New Order – “Shellshock” (7″ Edit)
54. Tones On Tail – “Burning Skies”
55. Sisters Of Mercy – “Flood II”
56. Slint – “Breadcrumb Path”
57. 9 Inch Nails – “The Wretched”
58. Cocteau Twins – “Cicely”
59. Lifeless Can Dance – “Mom Tongue”
60. Einstürzende Neubauten – “Nagorny Karabach”
61. Nick Cave & The Unhealthy Seeds – “From Her To Eternity”
62. Siouxsie & The Banshees – “Dizzy”
63. Swans – “Cash Is Flesh”
64. Bauhaus – “Bela Lugosi’s Lifeless”
65. Tears For Fears – “Concepts As Opiates”
66. Slint – “Don, Aman”
67. Slot – “An Night In Eastpointe” (Playground Model)
68. Spahn Ranch – “Breath And Taxes”
69. Tears For Fears – “Change”
70. Tones On Tails – “Copper”
71. Spahn Ranch – “Antibody”
72. Einstürzende Neubauten – “Yu-Gung” (Adrian Sherwood Combine)
73. Tones On Tails – “Actual Life”
74. The Sisters Of Mercy – “By no means Land” (Full Size)
75. 9 Inch Nails – “I am Trying Ahead To Becoming a member of You, Lastly”
76. Swans – “Greed”
77. The Treatment – “Lullaby”
78. The Verve – “Gravity Grave”
79. The Younger Gods – “Skinflowers”
80. Depeche Mode – “World In My Eyes” (7″ Model)

Followers have already stitched these 80 tracks right into a single playlist, which you’ll take a look at under.

Written and recorded throughout Arizona, Los Angeles, and on the street throughout final 12 months’s Sessanta tour, Regular Isn’t blends the darkish electronics and sharp humor Puscifer is thought for with a extra spontaneous inventive course of: “From the outset, we had mentioned a component of rawness and edge, which guitar brings,” mentioned Puscifer‘s Mat Mitchell. “We removed the guard rails and made the music extra aggressive.”

Puscifer vocalist Maynard James Keenan added: “Regular Is not displays this time we live in. As storytellers and artists, our job is to look at, interpret, and report. We absorb our surroundings and share what we see, and what we see round us doesn’t seem regular. Not by a protracted shot.”

Contributors to Regular Is not embrace Greg Edwards (bass), Gunnar Olsen (drums), and Sarah Jones (drums) with friends Tony Levin (bass on “Regular Is not” and “Seven One”), Danny Carey (drums on “Seven One”) and Mr. Ian Ross (father of Atticus Ross, who narrates “Seven One”).

Pre-orders are available here. Puscifer additionally introduced a North American tour in help of the album, kicking off on March 20 in Las Vegas and shutting at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, with stops at New York’s Terminal 5 and Purple Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Get your tickets here.

3/20 Las Vegas, NV The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
3/21 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Monetary Theatre
3/24 Austin, TX Bass Live performance Corridor
3/25 Dallas, TX Music Corridor at Honest Park
3/27 Nashville, TN The Pinnacle
3/28 Atlanta, GA Coca-Cola Roxy
3/31 Asheville, NC Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
4/1 Durham, NC DPAC – Durham Performing Arts Heart
4/3 Bethlehem, PA Wind Creek Occasion Heart
4/4 Boston, MA Boch Heart – Wang Theatre
4/7 New York, NY Terminal 5
4/8 Hershey, PA Hershey Theatre
4/10 Mashantucket, CT Premier Theater at Foxwoods Resort On line casino
4/11 Atlantic Metropolis, NJ Ovation Corridor at Ocean On line casino Resort
4/15 Niagara Falls, ON OLG Stage at Fallsview On line casino
4/16 Akron, OH Akron Civic Theatre
4/18 Detroit, MI Fox Theatre
4/19 Cincinnati, OH Taft Theatre
4/21 Louisville, KY The Louisville Palace
4/23 Indianapolis, IN Murat Theatre
4/25 Chicago, IL The Chicago Theatre
4/26 Milwaukee, WI Landmark Credit score Union Reside
4/28 Madison, WI The Sylvee
4/30 St. Louis, MO The Manufacturing facility
5/1 Kansas Metropolis, MO The Midland Theatre
5/3 Morrison, CO Purple Rocks Amphitheatre
5/5 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT Maverik Heart
5/8 Portland, OR Theater of the Clouds
5/9 Seattle, WA WAMU Theater
5/11 San Francisco, CA Golden Gate Theatre
5/13 San Diego, CA San Diego Civic Theatre
5/14 Los Angeles, CA The Greek Theatre