“The biggest challenge was not to come off like Tenacious D. It could easily be interpreted as some form of parody”: How Primus made an album about goblins and rainbows while trying not to mention goblins and rainbows
Primus bassist Les Claypool has spoken about the making of the band's 2017 concept album The Desaturating Seven, which reimagines the darkly-themed 1970s children's book The Rainbow Goblins by Italian illustrator Ul de Rico. Claypool explained he was drawn to adapting the story, having read it to his own children years earlier, and found renewed…