LA Priest Made This One For The Mind And The Body
Our boy — and no stranger to these pages — LA Priest has officially released his fourth album, Into The Sky, today, August 28, 2026.
The new 10-track record follows 2023’s Fase Luna and 2024’s La Fusion EP, an era we had the pleasure of catching live. Now Sam Eastgate has pushed the project somewhere even more fluorescent, synthetic and body-moving.
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Boys Noize Helps Push LA Priest Back Toward The Dance Floor
LA Priest, aka Sam Eastgate, co-wrote and co-produced Into The Sky with longtime friend Alex Ridha, aka Boys Noize, who also mixed the album. The two have known each other since Eastgate’s Late of the Pier days, and the reunion makes sense: this record leans hard into the electronic instincts Eastgate wanted to revisit.
Domino describes the album as maximalist and cyber-influenced, but the real hook is simpler: Eastgate wanted to make something you could actually move to from beginning to end. Love and liberation run through songs wrapped in pulsing electronics, shiny synth textures and a much more immediate pop attack.
The Machines Behind The Record Are Very Much His Own
Part of that sound comes from Eastgate’s own custom-built gear. The 10 songs were composed using his Polygene synthesizer and Gene 616 drum machine, giving Into The Sky a synthetic palette that still feels unmistakably human underneath all the circuitry.
That push and pull is basically LA Priest in a nutshell. He has always sounded interested in what happens when strange technology, handmade ideas and pop instinct all get shoved into the same room. Here, though, the experimentation feels less like a puzzle and more like an invitation.
“Ever No” Opened The Door, But There Is Plenty More Inside
The album campaign included the title track, “Ever No” and opener “Rayon.” “Ever No” arrived as a softer cyber ballad, while “Rayon” set the tone with a synthetic pulse and a very human sentiment at its center.
The complete album runs through “Rayon,” “No Other,” “Voices,” “Breathe,” “Ever No,” “Can’t Get Enough,” “Sailor,” “Into The Sky,” “Time” and “Message.” Ten tracks, no sprawling excess — just a concentrated trip into Eastgate’s latest version of the future.
Our Entry Point Is The Album’s Fourth Track, “Breathe”
We cherry-picked “Breathe” as a smooth little massage on the way into the full record. It sits fourth in the tracklist and makes a fine doorway into the polished, futuristic electronic world Eastgate and Ridha built together.
So press play, then keep going. Into The Sky is out now, and LA Priest is once again doing what he does best: following the strange idea until it becomes its own universe.
Listen to LA Priest’s “Breathe” From Into The Sky
“Breathe” is track four on LA Priest’s 10-song fourth album, Into The Sky, released August 28 through Domino.
Source: Domino.
