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LA's Spindrift celebrate their new CD "The West" - out November 11th on Beat the World Records.

CD release show at the Roxy - November 11th!

"Spindrift stage experimental, epic, cinematically inspired music more akin to the textured, symphonic layers of Portishead than the chaps and 10-gallon hat–wearing Riders in the Sky….makes you feel like you've just been made love to by a handsome stranger, a genius visceral experience." - LA Weekly

Spindrift frontman Kirpatrick Thomas’s fascination with the West has existed from childhood, stemming from his passion for films depicting the wild American frontier, especially those scored by Italian composer Ennio Morricone. This early interest has played a major part in his songwriting, and his druggy, spacious, psychedelic music found a supportive community in Los Angeles, where he arrived in the early part of the new millennium after a stint with the Brian Jonestown Massacre as a touring guitarist.

Wholeheartedly embraced by the local music scene, members of BJM and the Warlocks joined Thomas in fits and starts at first before eventually leaving their former positions to play with Spindrift fulltime. The completed line-up prompted the rare phenomenon of creating a new genre unto itself, Spaghetti Western psychedelia.

With a rapidly expanding fan base and a growing resume of many high profile shows, Spindrift attracted the attention of Indie 103.1 disc jockey (and Sex Pistol) Steve Jones of Jonesy’s Jukebox, who began playing tracks from their album Songs From the Ancient Age on a regular basis. Since then, they have toured nationally a number of times, sharing the stage with such bands as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dead Meadow, the Black Angels, Vietnam, country legend Charlie Louvin and A Place To Bury Strangers.

In 2005, Thomas, along with filmmaker Mike Bruce, produced a feature film entitled The Legend Of God’s Gun, for which Spindrift also wrote the soundtrack. Starring members of the band, it was shot in and around Death Valley, Joshua Tree and Los Angeles in the style of 1960s Spaghetti Western films, and was screened at the 2008 Cannes Market and premiered (as a drive-in) in California in May of the same year. Spindrift was also given the nod by Quentin Tarantino who chose their song “Indian Run” to be included in the soundtrack for the latest film he produced, Hell Ride, released August 2008, and starring Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen.

The West, a companion piece to The Legend of God’s Gun, will be released on the Dandy Warhols’ Beat The World Records in November 2008. Preceded by a four song vinyl EP, Goin Down, on Vacancy Records, the new full-length reaches out even further musically, exploring klezmer, blues, and sea shanties, while remaining loyally informed by the psychedelic rock that’s been their foundation for so long. The culmination of three-years hard work, The West is an expansive, sweeping album, the work of many musicians coming together with a common goal, a defined purpose, in the process creating what ends up being a tone poem of contemporary society itself.

"Truly out-of-sight, the seven-piece band celebrates the outlaw spirit with spooky, tripped-out variations on Ennio Morricone's spaghetti Western tradition. Live, they swirl and tremble like a lucid dream, banging a gong and shaking their tambourines for rattlesnake effect, jamming until the audience feels engulfed by a sandstorm."– Salt Lake City Weekly

"…saddle on up for the Spindrift experience, which is sure to feel like wandering out of the sun-baked dunes of Death Valley while clutching a Flying Burrito Brothers LP and gumming a mouthful of peyote." – Portland Mercury

"Thomas and his musical cohorts are creating a scene that embraces the outlaw…adding a psychedelic ingredient to the mix…he and other neo-cosmic cowboys have excavated an essence that seems more relevant today than ever before, a surreal and dark cowboy anti-hero for a spiritually and ethically decaying world." – L.A. Alternative