Tuatara - Underworld (2014)

TUATARA, the renowned instrumental supergroup featuring members of REM, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, and Luna, are releasing their 7th studio album, and their first album in almost 7 years. The new album, titled "Underworld", is an ambitious 20-song double album produced by drummer & group founder Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Walking Papers), and mixed by Jack Endino (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees). It will be released on August 4th 2014, via Martin's label, Sunyata Records. "Underworld" is an album that plays more like a modern movie soundtrack, steeped in electronic moods and urban beats, hypnotic bass and guitar, virtuosic saxophone, and shimmering percussion. The album features all five original members: Drummer Barrett Martin, REM guitarist Peter Buck, Luna bassist Justin Harwood, tenor sax legend Skerik, and Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. Like the soundtrack for a movie that has yet to be made, this album is about a journey into the Underworld, the mythical abode of the dead, a place of departed souls and wandering spirits, where deities and demigods battle with shamans and medicine men for spiritual supremacy. It is the realm of shades, a world of shadows and echoes, and that is where our story takes place. It's also where the most interesting stuff happens….

Tracklist:

1. Calling the Spirits (02:15)
2. Ghosts of the City (04:02)
3. Dueling Shamans (03:23)
4. Streetwalkin’ (03:54)
5. The Spider Pimp (03:26)
6. She Dreams of Snow (03:28)
7. Gremlin Chain Gang (03:02)
8. The Hard Swing (03:03)
9. Even Demons Fall in Love (03:05)
10. Enchantment (02:51)
11. Descension (04:52)
12. At The Crossroads (03:06)
13. Bass Beat Blues (05:30)
14. The Skeleton Getdown (02:57)
15. Snakecharmer (02:56)
16. The Creeper (03:03)
17. El Brujo (02:26)
18. Lost in Shinjuku (03:50)
19. Bonfires on the Avenue (02:47)
20. The Realm of Shades (03:40)