The Auteurs‘ Luke Haines and R.E.M.‘s Peter Buck will release their third collaborative album, “Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind“, on July 25th via Cherry Red Records. (Their previous album was 2022’s awesome “All the Kids Are Super Bummed Out”. They made the album in Portland, OR with their band that includes Peter’s Baseball Project bandmates Scott McCaughey (Minus 5, R.E.M.) on bass and Linda Pitmon (Filthy Friends, Steve Wynn) on drums.
Luke and Peter would like you to fill out the following questionnaire before attempting to listen to the album: 1) Are you absolutely certain that you are currently alive?
2) Do you have the urge to ‘fill someone in’?
3) Would you be willing to die tonight and then be re-conceived?
4) Are you a Witch?
5) Have you ever fantasised about marrying your own father or mother?
6) Does your inner self ever lie to your outer self?
7) Assuming that there is a Supreme Being – do you think that the supreme being likes you?
8) Have you ever owned a VW camper van? (If the answer is ‘no’ go straight to question 10)
9) Have you ever deliberately set fire to yours, or anyone else’s, VW camper van
10) Are you a ‘why’ person or a ‘what’ person? (answer either why or what or yes/know/don’t know)
With that out of the way, you can listen to the album’s trippy single, “The Pink Floyd Research Group,” that features such lyrics as, “Hiding out in the desert in a camper van / Blowing up the compound, sticking it to the man / There’s an awkward silence on the Dick Cavett Show / Up in Chelsea Cloisters we can find our way home.”
The first single from the new Luke Haines & Peter Buck album. “The Pink Floyd Research Group” is taken from the new studio album “Going Down To The River …To Blow My Mind“. Available on CD, vinyl, streaming and download from 25th July 2025.
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