Planet B Readies Album, Justin Pearson Readies Dance Mix

Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing) formed Planet B with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music lays somewhere just out of reach of genre, with aesthetics rooted in hip hop, hardcore punk, turntablism, and ’70s-’80s horror movie scores. It is catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once.

The band’s first self-titled LP showcased the band collaborating with artists such as Kool Keith, Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Martin Atkins (ex-PiL, Killing Joke, Ministry, Pigface), K. Joseph Karam (The Locust), and Sonny Kay (The VSS, Angel Hair). The band has also released splits with electronic punk duo ADULT. and turntablist collective Invisibl Skratch Piklz. Fiction Prediction, Planet B’s second LP, sees a similar array of collaborators.

Planet B’s second LP has been a long time in the making, and, as always, the sound is as confrontational as it is catchy, the lyrics scathing and the beats bizarre. Earworms abound. As with the band’s first release, there are a host of guest collaborations on the various tracks, from Josie Cotton to David Scott Stone (ex-LCD Soundsystem, Melvins), D-Styles (Invisibl Skratch Piklz), and more. Perhaps most personally meaningful are the instrumental contributions from Gabe Serbian (The Locust) and Eric Livingston (Mamaleek), both family to the band, who have each passed on from this dimension and back to whatever radical planet they came from since the creation of the album.

The album was recorded by Luke Henshaw, mixed by Daniel Schlett and mastered by Brent Asbury, and is pressed on limited color vinyl with two variants, “Pig in a Python” pink and “Melanin of War” camouflage. It will be released by Three One G on February 9. Preorder, here.

“Dick on the Dance Floor” is a track off of the band’s upcoming album, Fiction Prediction. “Dick on the Dance Floor” music video features Valeria Catalina. Filmed by Becky DiGiglio and edited by Displaced/ Replaced.

Inspired by “Dick on the Dance Floor,” Ghettoblaster asked Pearson for 10 radical tracks that he’d put on if he were DJing a dance party. This is what he chose.

Boots Randolph, “Yakety Sax”