THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out is the second album/collaboration between Luke Haines (Auteurs / Baader / Meinhof / Black Box Recorder) and Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and the followup to their well-received 2020 debut Beat Poetry For Survivalists.
Buck plays guitar and feeds LSD to a broken Moog synthesiser. Haines sings songs about God, provides an occasional strum on his guitar and blows Pan’s flute. Scott McCaughey plays the bass and mellotron and Linda Pitmon bangs the ritual drum. Lenny Kaye drops in and has a nightmare in the key of doo-wop.
During the last two years, over lockdowns, Haines and Buck retreated to a Cold War bunker and recorded this double album manifesto, monster-piece and masterpiece, in answer to the question: Why are all the kids super bummed out?”
