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Primus Streaming Willy Wonka Inspired Album

10/15/2014
. (Radio.com) Primus are streaming their new Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory inspired album online. Primus has been active over the past several decades, taking a brief break between 2000 and 2003, but the lineup has shifted around with Les Claypool remaining the group's constant in terms of voice and direction since its inception in 1984.

Despite many lineup changes, the band has what is deemed a "definitive" lineup, a golden age of Primus, which existed between 1989 and 1996, and includes Claypool, bassist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander. That trio is back together and ready with their first album since that era as the "definitive" Primus.

Titled Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble, the album is the group's reinterpretation of the classic 1971 film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and its inception reportedly stems from their dislike of the Tim Burton re-imagining of the tale in 2005.

Now, the album is available for stream via The New York Times ahead of its October 21 release on ATO Records. More including a link to the stream here.

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