Luke Haines (Auteurs) & Peter Buck (R.E.M.) prep new collab LP: hear “The Pink Floyd Research Group”

The Auteurs‘ Luke Haines and R.E.M.‘s Peter Buck will release their third collaborative album, Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind, on July 25 via Cherry Red. (Their previous album was 2022’s awesome All the Kids Are Super Bummed Out.) They made the album in Portland, OR with their band that includes Peter’s Baseball Project bandmates Scott McCaughey (Minus 5, R.E.M.) on bass and Linda Pitmon (Filthy Friends, Steve Wynn) on drums. Luke and Peter would like you to fill out the following questionnaire before attempting to listen to the album:

1) Are you absolutely certain that you are currently alive?
2) Do you have the urge to ‘fill someone in’?
3) Would you be willing to die tonight and then be re-conceived?
4) Are you a Witch?
5) Have you ever fantasised about marrying your own father or mother?
6) Does your inner self ever lie to your outer self?
7) Assuming that there is a Supreme Being – do you think that the supreme being likes you?
8) Have you ever owned a VW camper van? (If the answer is ‘no’ go straight to question 10)
9) Have you ever deliberately set fire to yours, or anyone else’s, VW camper van
10) Are you a ‘why’ person or a ‘what’ person? (answer either why or what or yes/know/don’t know)

With that out of the way, you can listen to the album’s trippy single, “The Pink Floyd Research Group,” that features such lyrics as, “Hiding out in the desert in a camper van / Blowing up the compound, sticking it to the man / There’s an awkward silence on the Dick Cavett Show / Up in Chelsea Cloisters we can find our way home.” Watch the lyric video below.

Luke & Peter will take the show on the road for a UK tour in August and those dates are listed below.

Going Down To The River… To Blow My Mind
1. The Pink Floyd Research Group
2. Going Down To The River To Blow My Mind
3. Hot Artists
4. 56 Nervous Breakdowns
5. Sufi Devotional
6. Children Of The Air
7. Nuclear War
8. Me And The Octopus
9. In Rock
10. Judy Chicago
11. Papa John
12. Radical Bookshop Now
13. Special Guest Appearance

LUKE HAINES & PETER BUCK – 2025 TOUR DATES
14 August    BRISTOL    STRANGE BREW
15 August    LONDON    OMEARA
16 August    LONDON    OMEARA
17 August    EXETER    CAVERN
19 August    CAMBRIDGE    PORTLAND ARMS
20 August    BIRMINGHAM    HARE & HOUNDS
21 August    NOTTINGHAM    METRONOME
22 August    POCKLINGTON    ARTS CENTRE
23 August    MANCHESTER    GORILLA
25 August    OXTED    BARN
27 August    HEBDEN BRIDGE    TRADES CLUB
28 August    LEEDS    BRUDENELL SOCIAL CLUB
29 August    NEWCASTLE    THE CLUNY
30 August    GLASGOW    ORAN MOR
31 August    PRESTON    THE FERRET