Two years after saying that Primus were taking "a little snooze, a siesta," busy bassman Les Claypool has pulled his popular, funky trio back together for a new EP, DVD and several tour dates.

Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde and drummer Tim Alexander reunited in June and recorded five new songs -- "The Carpenter and the Dainty Bride," "Pilcher's Squad," "Mary the Ice Cube," "The Last Superower a.k.a. Rapscallion" and "My Friend Fats" -- which will be included on Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People an EP/DVD combo, due October 7th. The new set of songs will be the band's first since the release of AntiPop four years ago.

The DVD will run three-plus hours and include all twelve of Primus' videos, the short film The Devil Went Down to Georgia, a documentary about the making of The Brown Album and live footage from throughout the band's two decades.

Primus have also started plotting dates for their 2003 Tour de Fromage, which will run through October and November. Primus promises a career-spanning cross-section of songs over the shows' first set, followed by a second set featuring a complete performance of 1991's Sailing the Seas of Cheese. The only dates set so far are October 17th in Los Angeles, October 21st in Denver and October 31st in San Francisco.

ANDREW DANSBY
(August 11, 2003)