Gorilla Preacher Cartel is the forty-fourth album by Omar Rodríguez-López as a solo artist, to be released on March 24, 2017. It is the nineteenth release in the album series initiated by Ipecac Recordings, the seventh of the 2017 series.

Original release schedule listed a different title, Scrapyard Handshakes. It's unknown whether this title was meant for this album, or a different release altogether. The record serves as a sort of compilation gathering vastly different types of recordings and songs/"scraps" from various times throughout the 2000s in the vein of 2016's Some Need It Lonely, although this record has a much greater emphasis on instrumental tracks, even featuring lengthy guitar solos on most songs.

"Buying Friendships" was uploaded in advance as the album's single. It features recorded tracks from two former Mars Volta drummers, Jon Theodore & Deantoni Parks, fused together as an entirely new song with Omar adding a vocal track. Parts of the 2008 records Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus & Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead are revisited here from their 2001 sessions prior to the formation of The Mars Volta featured on the first track.

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