Primitive Ring Ask What’s Left to Do in the Wasteland — Then They Ride

Primitive Ring came together fast. Bert Hoover and Charles Moothart — the latter best known as Ty Segall’s right-hand guitarist in FUZZ — linked up in September 2024 looking for a new creative outlet, brought in drummer Jon Modaff, and spent 2025 hauling amps and drums into bars and firing off four 7″s on four different labels. By December they were in Echo Park’s Station House with engineer Mark Rains cutting a full-length. That record, their self-titled debut, lands May 15 on In The Red.

“Heads Will Roll” is the lead single and, by the band’s own account, the last piece to fall into place — the song that tied the whole record together. Directed by Jenny Baumert, the video matches the track’s energy: anthemic, driving, and just barely controlled. The band calls it “both gentle and bellicose,” a primal scream for a dying dream. When a band with Moothart in it says primal, you believe them.

Eleven tracks, just under 42 minutes, built from the distinct writing instincts of three people finding a common frequency. The West Coast tour runs alongside Ty Segall through the spring before a string of summer festival dates in Europe. Pre-order below.

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1“Fire and Brimstone”

2“The Last Goldmine”

3“Lies From the Other Side”

4“Paid”

5“Sold a Lie”

6“Heads Will Roll”

7“Call Me What You Please”

8“Griefsong”

9“The Callous Man”

10“Our Oblivion”

11“Golden”