We need to talk about Caleb Landry Jones’ debut LP

Caleb Landry Jones is a per­former of great range, from a lacrosse stick-twirling creep in Get Out to a drug-abus­ing creep in Heav­en Knows What to a micro-aggres­sive creep in Tyrel. But he’ll soon assay a role in which the pub­lic has nev­er seen him before: that of musician.

Sacred Bones, the record label respon­si­ble for dis­trib­ut­ing orig­i­nal com­po­si­tions from David Lynch and John Car­pen­ter, has announced that they will release Jones’ debut album ​‘Moth­er Stone’ lat­er this year. The title track, an eight-minute sprawl of psy­che­delia and dement­ed car­ni­val music, has been made avail­able as a sin­gle – and it pos­i­tive­ly screams ​‘actor­ly side project’ (which doesn’t have to be a bad thing!)

The pro­mo copy paints Jones as a vet­er­an song­writer, mak­ing men­tion of a past band called Robert Jones and record­ing ses­sions in his par­ents’ Tex­an barn. Jones claims to have a cat­a­logue of back-work num­ber­ing sev­en hun­dred songs deep, many of them unheard out­side of his meet­ing with Jim Jar­musch that led to the release of the new album.

Jones claims The Bea­t­les’ self-titled White Album as a major influ­ence, and that much is clear from the off-kil­ter atmos­phere of mish-mashed sounds. He com­bines jaun­ty honky-tonk music with prog-lite flights of fan­cy; the Frank Zap­pa ele­ment only under­lined by the avant-garde visu­als accom­pa­ny­ing the tune below. If you need­ed a sound­track for your ram­shackle trav­el­ing trou­ba­dour act, you’re in luck.

As van­i­ty projects go, this one’s not all that vain; unlike John­ny Depp and his exe­crable rock band Hol­ly­wood Vam­pires, he’s not mak­ing an effort to refash­ion him­self as one of the rock stars of yore. Jones is trend­ing towards some­thing weird­er and more sen­si­tive, less rock­er and more bard, an indi­vid­u­al­ist spir­it through and through.

‘The Moth­er Stone’ is out 1 May on Sacred Bones. Pre-order here.