SPIN Goes Deep With The “Austere and Surreal and Absurdist” Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

A recent SPIN article goes deep with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. “Eccentrics, rejoice,” the venerable magazine writes. “Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s doors are open to the public once again! With their new album, Of the Last Human Being, the recently reactivated band returns to the road and to the maximalist, forward-thinking rock music that made them cult heroes in the 2000s… Entering Sleepytime Gorilla Museum’s orbit can feel a bit like climbing inside a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum song. We met up on their tour bus, an old green Greyhound that’s been customized by the band’s bassist and resident mad scientist, Dan Rathbun… Over the course of our conversation, a revolving cast of supporting characters—dancers, academics, the members’ own children—clambered onto the bus to weigh in on a question or two before vanishing. The band drank tea and ate chili, prepared in an onboard kitchen, and they frequently finished each other’s sentences, or laughed over anticipated punchlines. It was exhilarating and occasionally overwhelming.”

Read the full interview here, and get Of The Last Human Being started on your station now.