Bay Area-raised, Los Angeles-based band Provoker announces their third full-length album Mausoleum due May 9th via YEAR0001. Alongside the album announcement, Provoker shares the lead single ‘Another Boy’ which arrives with a video directed by Andrea Riba portraying the trio as plastic, uncanny mannequin versions of themselves seeking freedom from their storefront confines.
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The band’s forthcoming album is thematically rooted in feelings of isolation, but practically, is one of the most communal and collaborative projects the band has ever made, executive produced by esteemed producer Kenneth Blume. The band’s Christian Crow Petty, Jonathon Lopez and Wil Palacios workshopped ideas together in studio sessions, born out of Petty’s thoughts of hauntings while holed up in an Echo Park attic. The album also enlists additional production from accomplished friends like Elliot Kozell (Yves Tumor, SZA), Simon Christensen (Gunna, Young Thug), Mikey Freedom Hart (Blood Orange, Lana Del Rey) and Zach Fogarty (Jean Dawson, Eyedress).
On Mausoleum, Provoker’s signature darkness has grown even bolder, sharpened and synthesized with the addition of Blume’s production and other outside perspectives. Petty and Lopez’s songwriting partnership delves deeper on the album, shifting the focus from supernatural creatures and the sci-fi of their cinematic influences to a world more rooted in our own reality and the hauntings of our own personal struggles. Those revelations are couched in the band’s characteristically vivid imagery of grotesquerie but capture all-too-familiar feelings of struggles with self-worth, relationships and redemption.
For the uninitiated, Provoker began as a solo effort from musician Jonathon Lopez to create scores for horror and sci-fi films. After joining forces with vocalist and songwriter Christian Crow Petty and bassist Wil Palacios, Provoker released their debut full-length album as a trio with Body Jumper in 2021 and followed up with their 2023 release Demon Compass, which Alternative Press described as “uniquely emotional and addicting.” The band has toured alongside the likes of Viagra Boys, Beach Fossils, Turnover, glaive, TR/ST and spent 2024 touring across North America, including festival sets at Sound & Fury, Viva PHX and Substance Fest.
Pre-order / save Mausoleum and check out ‘Another Boy’ above, see album details below, and stay tuned for more from Provoker coming very soon.
Mausoleum tracklist
1. ‘Swarm of Flies’
2. ‘Tears In The Club’
3. ‘Prisoner of Love’
4. ‘Pantomime’
5. ‘Germaphobe’
6. ‘Another Boy’
7. ‘Gun2MyHead’
8. ‘Glow In The Dark’
9. ‘Mausoleum’
10. ‘Singing Gun’
11. ‘Replay’
