SMOKING POPES - Lovely Stuff (LP) Arkam Definitely their best recording and

Definitely their best recording and batch of songs to date

Carnage Asada): Steve is one of my favorite people on this earth

Gay Boredom

And can guess that maybe even some of the songs are about the people in said room

The new collection attempts to stitch up the bloody wounds of their past — a meditation on birth and death

SMOKING POPES - Lovely Stuff (LP) Arkam Definitely their best recording andChicago punk legends Smoking Popes are back with a new full length studio album called Lovely Stuff, their first since 2018s Into The Agony. The album will be released in April 2025 by Anxious & Angry, available on 12 LP vinyl, digital download and streaming platforms. This new self produced album was recorded at Bombsight Studio, Bloomington IL and Million Yen Studio, Chicago IL with David Rossi and Andy Gerber engineering. It took us about two years