[Cover photo credit to Eleanor Segel Williamson]
The Colorado-based Alt-Country Rock band Gasoline Lollipops have announced that their upcoming LP, Kill The Architect which will release on June 13, 2025, their debut with ALP Recordings.
Produced by longtime Los Lobos member Steve Berlin, the album “tackles our struggle for balance and connection in the midst of political turmoil.” The first single “Humanity,” out now, reflects that, “addressing both what brings us together and what drives us apart.” It’s accompanied by an official video.
About the new track, frontman Clay Rose shares:
‘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.
Kill the Architect began to take shape as Rose composed music for Sam & Delilah, a psychedelic Country ballet based upon the Biblical tale 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.”
Rose comments:
As humans, we’ve separated ourselves based upon our beliefs and the identities we’ve created. 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.
This Saturday, the band will perform at the Santa Clarita Cowboy Fest. To stay up to date with upcoming tour dates, please visit gasolinelollipops.com.
