It's been a wacky year for James Pants.

He's became a new dad, has toured all over the word, moved from Spokane to Colorado, made oddly instructive cooking videos along with strangely hilarious trailers for his new album, the retro-hip-hop cult-themed psychedelic late-night pleaser, "Seven Seals."

And after all that, Papa Pants is playing a show on New Year's Eve in Spokane at The Swamp.

Although Pants has plans to move back to Spokane, he passed up gigs in New York and San Francisco and is instead flying up for a 2010 party with his old cohort Ben Cater, aka DJ Supervillain.

For the New Year's Eve show, Supervillain will be spinning a 2010 Space Odyssey mix while Pants will be doing whatever he wants, just as he does on his new album, released earlier this month.

Laced with lo-fi electronics and ghostly fuzzed rap/sung vocals, "Seven Seals" darkly departs from the upbeat flashback beats on his 2008 full-length debut, "Welcome."

It's not necessarily a new direction for Pants, "Seven Seals" is just something he had to get out of his system, he said.

Pants, aka James Singleton, already has a third album in the works, a sort of tropical counterpunch to "Seven Seals," he said.

James Pants and DJ Supervillain drop the beat at 9 p.m. on New Year's Eve at The Swamp, 1904 W. 5th Ave. Cover is $5, 21 and older welcome.

Check out the video panel to see Pants' cooking video It's exotic and fresh. The video was produced and directed by Spokane's own Aaron Fink.

(A version of this story appeared in The Spokesman-Review.)