Laughing, by Coffin Prick

Laughing

by Coffin Prick

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Tim Looney There’s a lot to like on this record but Laughing is definitely my favorite track. Reminds me of Eno. Not emo. Favorite track: Laughing.

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1.	Surfs Up 04:01	buy track
2.	Laughing 04:05	buy track
3.	The Guild Of Cowards 05:27	buy track
4.	Legendary Sweet Tooth 01:59	buy track
5.	Ricochet In Limbo 03:29	buy track
6.	Town Without Pity 2 04:14	buy track
7.	The Big Hunger 02:44	buy track
8.	Rusty Lemonade 03:52	buy track
9.	Crooked Wisdom 03:00	buy track
10.	Teeth Age Dream 01:16	buy track
11.	Smooth Rubber Ailment 03:55	buy track
12.	Liars 02:43	buy track
13.	Swimming 02:43	buy track

about

The first solo album by Ryan Weinstein is truly a world of its own. Under the name Coffin Prick (the singular version of Coffin Pricks, his group with Chris Thomson), Weinstein has built a musical ecosystem filled with rhyming sounds, hypnotically hermetic production, and a rhythmic gravity that keeps everything in orbit. Crafted entirely at his home in Los Angeles, Laughing is simultaneously isolated and welcoming, as if Weinstein is both reflecting his environment and opening it up for everyone to explore.

So many compelling sights and sounds await if you choose to accept Weinstein’s invitation and enter the universe of Laughing. Fiery guitar accents, spaced-out synth patterns, random sounds captured while dog-walking, and the echoey missives of Weinstein’s voice all dart around the stereo space like electrons circling a nucleus. That nucleus consists of his dazzling bass and drum structures, which form the heart of nearly every track here. He consistently finds loops that stick in your brain, sometimes sounding like post-punk from outer space, other times evoking classic dub shot through with helium or doused in gasoline.

Take a ride on “Ricochet in Limbo,” a piston-firing workout in which Weinstein’s slashing guitar cuts through synth detonations like a motorcycle in a minefield. Slide down “Smooth Rubber Ailment,” a funk-skimming jam whose chilly beat and blurry vocals suggest a haunted house dance party. Climb the rising stairs of “The Guild of Cowards,” a slow-burning instrumental that evokes the 1980s without sounding the least bit dated. Jump on the swing of “Laughing,” whose title signifies both the humor of Weinstein’s absurdist soundscapes and the way, as he puts it, laughing is “a sort of involuntary tell that humans can’t really hide behind.”

Humans actually were hiding a bit when Weinstein made Laughing, and in one sense that helped. As streets outside of his apartment emptied, he heard coyotes howling, and those sounds inspired him. As a result, there’s a sense of nostalgia here for open spaces, for places where sounds echo rather than getting drowned out. But ultimately Laughing feels outward and connective. By creating his own musical time and space, Weinstein has given us a new place to hang out.

(Text by Marc Masters)

Releases June 2, 2023

credits

released June 2, 2023

All music and words written, performed, recorded, and initially mixed by Coffin Prick at Pancho's and Grae Matter Studio, Los Angeles, California, 2020-2022

With additional editing, mixing, and great audio frequency assistance from Aaron M Olson and Laura Callier

*Additional re-arrangement, synthesized alignment, Fender bass, and re-conceptualization on tracks 3, 6, & 8 by Aaron M Olson

Final master mix and processing with Graeme Gibson at Grae Matter Studio in Los Angeles, 2021/2022.

Mastering by Dave Gardner at Infrasonic, Los Angeles, CA 2022

Artwork by Bjorn Copeland
Photography by Lisa Anne Auerbach
Layout by Miles Wintner

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Coffin Prick Los Angeles, California

Ryan Weinstein/Coffin Prick is a multi-instrumentalist currently living in Los Angeles, CA.

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