EASTIE BOY OFF "LS UP" ALBUM
PRODUCED BY N8NOFACE
MIXED AND MASTERED BY KEITEL AT LOWE KEY STUDIOS

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N8NOFACE had already lived the insane Hollywood biopic life of gangster/rockstar before he even started his solo musical career.

As one half of glitchy chiptune Tucson duo Crimekills in the MySpace era, N8 first began recording and posting his own dadaist lo-fi rants online, fueled by the dark, violent tales of his hometown friends who walked the line with Mexican drug cartels and his own drug addictions. After relocating to Long Beach, CA in the early 2010’s and eventually cleaning up his personal life, the prolific artist has issued 5 albums and a slew of EPs, remixes and collaborations. Recorded on the fly in the closet of his Long Beach, CA apartment, his often stream-of-consciousness, typically 1-minute long songs run the gamut of synth punk, hip-hop, electronic and outlaw country music.

Like the life and music of the man himself, N8NOFACE’s new 9-song L’s UP EP is also all over the map. More hip-hop leaning than his previous recordings, it nonetheless ranges from glitching Western, 80s horror soundtrack synths, dark Krautrock balladry, metallic punk and more.

“Fred Durst put together such a crazy line up of different acts and sounds for the Loserville tour I will be a part of this summer, I wanted to do something that reflected that,” he says. “I went back to my roots of hip-hop I feel on this one. Limp Bizkit being the hybrid of rap and rock, and Fred loving hip hop, I was inspired to just do something maybe a little different from all the ‘post punk, electronic sound’ I have been doing.”

“Loser Intro” perfectly sets the scene for L’s UP, slowly fading in to a plaintive classic rock groove that N8’s chopped to pieces, as sampled dialogue underscore the pride of the outcast, the loser. It works like the best stage entrance soundtrack to set up the ripping lead single, “Churro”. N8 explains of the single, “it was a song I had been playing live for a while and kids knew the lyrics already from it only being played at shows, never releasing it,” he says. He decided this was the release he wanted it on, but it should be different from the live version. “So I recruited West Coast Street Mexican rap legend Conejo to do a verse on it. Which I think with his Spanish flow really brings it home.”

Elsewhere, ominous 80s analog synths slither across slowly building palm muted guitar arpeggio notes on “Dark and Strange” as a barely audible N8 lurks under cover of the darkness. ”Legal For a Day” revisits 90s gangsta rap 808s and chirping synth notes as N8 interacts with guest vocalists HO99O9. “Birds of a Feather” finds the singer flowing at almost a whisper over a lightly plucked acoustic guitar. “Cold Hearted” and “Home Invasion” are the most representative of his signature punk-hop attack with greasy synths pushed all the way to the max, lo-fi drum machine beats and N8’s charismatic vocals that draws the listener in and elevates his dark lyrical themes.

While the entire EP was produced by N8NOFACE, it also includes collaborations with Chico Mann of Here Lies Man (guitar on “Dark and Strange” & synths on “Churro”), hip-hop producer WRIST (“Legal For a Day”), HO99O9 (“Legal For a Day”), and Riff Grimes (guitar and drum programming on “Don’t Play”).

N8NOFACE embarks on his first arena tour in July 2024 as part of Limp Bizkit’s Loserville Tour. In recent years, along with his own headlining dates, he’s played shows with HO99O9, Juliette Lewis, City Morgue, and more.

L’s UP will be available June 28, 2024 on Sin Cara Records.

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