Since they popped onto the local scene just a few months ago, Le Loup has been making major waves. They were filling local music venues, getting signed to a great label, and setting up tours with big name artists in the time it takes most bands to decide on a name and set up a MySpace page. They’ve worked their way into our hearts here at DCist too, as a Three Stars band and headlining our most recent Unbuckled show. All this foreplay has built up quite a bit of anticipation for their album, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, which is finally coming out tomorrow.

If you’ve seen the band live, you’ll notice right away that the album seems slightly thinner than what you’ve heard. That’s because you’re not hearing the full band on this album: you’re just hearing Sam Simkoff. Le Loup was, as most people know by now, his creation. He wrote and recorded the songs himself, long before ever forming the seven person army that currently fills out the band’s lineup. Hardly Art was so impressed with the original recordings, they didn’t see a need to re-record anything. So rather than hearing four guitars surging at once, and a chorus of varied voices, you’re hearing Sam manning everything at once. Which isn’t as exciting as the full band, but is still something very special.