NASHVILLE |DT: APRIL 20, 2012
FR: LIBBY COFFEY/MITCH SCHNEIDER–MSO
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD:
PREMIERE
“LOLLIPOP OPERA”
TODAY ON SPIN.COM
TRACK INCLUDED ON FORTHCOMING EP
‘ONE DROP’
OUT SATURDAY, APRIL 21 ON RECORD STORE DAY AND
FULL-LENGTH PUBLIC IMAGE LTD ALBUM
‘THIS IS PIL’
OUT MAY 29
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD are set to release a 4-track EP entitled One Drop this Saturday, April 21 for Record Store Day. The One Drop EP is comprised of 4 songs–“One Drop,” “I Must Be Dreaming,” “The Room I Am In” and “Lollipop Opera”–that will also be available on THIS IS PiL, PUBLIC IMAGE LTD’s first new album in 20 years out May 29. “Lollipop Opera” premieres exclusively today on SPIN.COM and NME.com. Listen here: http://www.spin.com/articles/hear-public-image-ltds-sneering-lollipop-opera.
THIS IS PIL is entirely self-funded by PUBLIC IMAGE LTD and will be released via PiL’s own label PiL Official on Redeye in the U.S. All the new material was recorded in the U.K. last year at Steve Winwood’s studio in the Cotswolds.
Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and influential bands of all time, PUBLIC IMAGE LTD’s music and vision earned them 5 U.K. Top 20 Singles and 5 U.K. Top 20 Albums. With a shifting line-up and unique sound, JOHN LYDON guided the band from their debut album First Issue in 1978 through 1992’s That What Is Not, before a 17-year hiatus. LYDON then resurrected PiL in 2009 playing live worldwide. Now after 20 years, yet another new and unique chapter is set to unfold in the shape of new PiL material.
Pictured above: Public Image Ltd 2012 Paul Heartfield (left to right: Bruce Smith/Scott Firth/John Lydon/Lu Edmonds).
For PUBLIC IMAGE LTD publicity in the U.S., contact:
MSO–818-380-0400
Mitch Schneider/x235,
MSchneider@msopr.com
Libby Coffey/x224,
LCoffey@msopr.com
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