“Make Yourself Comfortable” out today!

After a year of writing, recording, and mixing, our new album "Make Yourself Comfortable" is live on all streaming platforms.

This is is the first Czars of Leisure record since 2017's OK Fine (which was actually recorded in 2010/11). It was road-tested at The What-Have-You over the course of the past year and recorded completely at home at Casa CoL.

The lead single, “Transistor”, was the first song of the bunch to be written (September 2024) and first new composition in almost 15 years. It’s also the first Czars song to feature a dum loop instead of live drums.

The classic 90s influences on the CoL sound return on the Teenage Fanclub-meets-Yo La Tengo of “What So What Now What” while “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Special)” is the alt-country sound of the early days of the band. The Guided By Voices tribute, “Pollard Throws No-Hitter”, matches mid-tempo indie rock with a bubbly organ straight out of Elvis Costello’s first few albums.

At the same time, there are some new foreys and bandary-pushing. The disco arena rock of "After All", the shoegaze with Randy Newman-esque lyrics of "Big House No Yard", the aforementioned electro-drum machine sunny pop of "Transistor", and the tight funk meets Medeski Martin & Wood jamming of "Let's Get Into It!" expand on our love of power pop, indie, and garage rock.

Rounding out the record are a trio of songs that could be described as “mood pieces.” The apocolyptic “When The House Comes Knocking” is a dark swing with a Marc Ribot lead guitar; “Til I Told You”, is a wannabe jazz standard left over from the OK Fine sessions; and the instrmental “There At the Beginning, Here At The End”, composed the morning after the 2024 election and featuring a recurring lead guitar in three different styles before fading out.

Make Yourself Comfortable is available on all streaming platforms, with links on https://linktr.ee/czarsofleisure and on our music page.

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Look for our album release show on FRI June 12 at Evening Star Cafe.