L.S. Underground – The Grape Prophet

Widely regarded as the magnum opus of Michael Knott's L.S. Underground, The Grape Prophet is one of the most distinctive rock operas to emerge from the early '90s alternative underground. Released in 1992 on Knott's own Blonde Vinyl Records, the album follows Ellis, an orange picker dispatched by his boss Colonel Peckesen to rescue his fellow workers from the grip of a charismatic cult leader known as the Grape Prophet - a thinly veiled allegory for the fault lines running through the evangelical movement of the era. Dark, heavy, and almost uncomfortably earnest, it arrived just ahead of the grunge explosion and sounded like nothing else in Knott's already eclectic catalog.Lost in Ohio is proud to present a very limited second pressing, newly cut for vinyl by Lex van Coeverden at The Vinyl Room. For this pressing, original negative scans from the 1992 cover photo shoot were sourced through the archival work of the Us Kids team - stunning, unsettling images that match the album's dark and brooding character in a way nothing else could. Pressed on Red Stained splatter vinyl, the visual palette of those photographs extends into the record itself.