Artist:
Butthole Surfers
Genre:
Alternative/Indie Rock
Pop/Rock
Total Time:
45:00
Record Label:
Sunset Blvd Records
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 26, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Butthole Surfers
Genre:
Alternative/Indie Rock
Pop/Rock
Total Time:
45:00
Record Label:
Sunset Blvd Records
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
June 26, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: Decades after they aborted mission, their weird revolution is back on.
After the Astronaut is a do-over 28 years in the making. The album was intended to be the follow-up to the Butthole Surfers’ 1996 album Electriclarryland—which spawned the alt-rap earworm “Pepper”—but even that fluke hit didn’t buy the Texan provocateurs creative carte blanche with their Capitol Records bosses.
After the album got held up in label limbo, the band gave the majority of the tracks a production spit-shine and released them in 2001 as Weird Revolution, into a post-nu-metal alterna-culture that had turned less receptive to the Buttholes’ brand of acid-spiked absurdity.
But hearing the original artifact decades later, it boggles the mind as to why this was considered unreleasable at the time: What we hear on After the Astronaut is a veteran noise-punk band successfully adapting to the trip-hop and electronic aesthetics that were permeating modern-rock radio in the late ’90s.
Sure, a record that opens with a megaphoned Gibby Haynes delivering a spoken-word rallying cry for a “weird revolution” over a Madchester rhythm may not have been the easiest sell to the masses, and the album is hardly lacking for bizarro beat-driven experiments with names like “Junkie Jenny in Gaytown.”
But if the label was hoping for another “Pepper,” the Buttholes were willing to play ball: It’s not too hard to imagine an alternate universe where shuffle-grooved sing-alongs like “Intelligent Guy” and “Jet Fighter” are lighting up the TRL request line.
After the Astronaut is a do-over 28 years in the making. The album was intended to be the follow-up to the Butthole Surfers’ 1996 album Electriclarryland—which spawned the alt-rap earworm “Pepper”—but even that fluke hit didn’t buy the Texan provocateurs creative carte blanche with their Capitol Records bosses.
After the album got held up in label limbo, the band gave the majority of the tracks a production spit-shine and released them in 2001 as Weird Revolution, into a post-nu-metal alterna-culture that had turned less receptive to the Buttholes’ brand of acid-spiked absurdity.
But hearing the original artifact decades later, it boggles the mind as to why this was considered unreleasable at the time: What we hear on After the Astronaut is a veteran noise-punk band successfully adapting to the trip-hop and electronic aesthetics that were permeating modern-rock radio in the late ’90s.
Sure, a record that opens with a megaphoned Gibby Haynes delivering a spoken-word rallying cry for a “weird revolution” over a Madchester rhythm may not have been the easiest sell to the masses, and the album is hardly lacking for bizarro beat-driven experiments with names like “Junkie Jenny in Gaytown.”
But if the label was hoping for another “Pepper,” the Buttholes were willing to play ball: It’s not too hard to imagine an alternate universe where shuffle-grooved sing-alongs like “Intelligent Guy” and “Jet Fighter” are lighting up the TRL request line.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Weird Revolution
(04:04)
2 . Intelligent Guy (Astronaut Version) (03:16)
3 . Jet Fighter (02:43)
4 . Mexico (03:51)
5 . Imbuya (02:56)
6 . Venus (03:53)
7 . The Last Astronaut (04:38)
8 . Yentel (03:22)
9 . Junkie Jenny in Gaytown (04:23)
10 . They Came In (05:04)
11 . I Don't Have A Problem (05:01)
12 .Turkey and Dressing (02:43)
2 . Intelligent Guy (Astronaut Version) (03:16)
3 . Jet Fighter (02:43)
4 . Mexico (03:51)
5 . Imbuya (02:56)
6 . Venus (03:53)
7 . The Last Astronaut (04:38)
8 . Yentel (03:22)
9 . Junkie Jenny in Gaytown (04:23)
10 . They Came In (05:04)
11 . I Don't Have A Problem (05:01)
12 .Turkey and Dressing (02:43)
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