Gasoline Lollipops Announce New Album ‘Kill The Architect’ Produced By Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin

Colorado alt-country outfit Gasoline Lollipops announced a new album, Kill The Architect, due out on June 13 as the group’s first LP with ALP Recordings. Produced by Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin, Kill The Architect is previewed with the single “Humanity.”

Kill The Architect grew out of Gasoline Lollipops frontman and lyricist Clay Rose working on a psychedelic country ballet, Sam & Delilah, based on the Biblical story of Samson and Delilah.

“Like the ballet, much of the album is about the duality of human nature – good and evil / light and dark – and how balance is only achieved when we accept both sides of the coin into ourselves,” as per press materials for Kill The Architect.

“As humans, we’ve separated ourselves based upon our beliefs and the identities we’ve created,” Rose stated. “Those things might have weight, but ultimately, it’s not real. It’s fleeting. It goes away when you go to sleep. It’s not worth dying for, and it’s certainly not worth killing for. If you’ve gotta kill something, kill your identity and be liberated. That’s what Kill The Architect is about.”

Rose met Berlin when Gasoline Lollipops opened for Los Lobos in Colorado on the latter’s 50th anniversary tour. Rose and the band convened with Berlin at Dockside Studio in Lafayette, Louisiana where they captured the album in a series of live-in-the-studio performances. The record also sees guest spots from Gregory Alan Isakov and Fruition’s Mimi Naja. Rose enlisted his Nashville songwriter mother, Donna Farar — who co-wrote Willie Nelson’s 1982 hit “Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning” — to craft the song “Tennessee Nights.”

The first taste of Kill The Architect is “Humanity,” which Rose also detailed:

“‘Humanity’ swings like a rusty pendulum between our need to accept responsibility for our lives in the throes of late-stage capitalism, and the anesthetizing self-infatuation of social media and consumerism. It’s a post-apocalyptic beauty pageant, and we’re all runners up. Who will be crowned Queen of Ground Zero? Who will be trampled in the race for glamour? Just remember folks, when you’re flat on your back, with the imported stiletto heel of the American Dream boring a hole through your throat, there’s nowhere to look, but up.”

Watch the official music video for “Humanity” below: