Young Prisms Announce New LP 'Drifter', Stream "Honeydew"

San Francisco shoegaze band Young Prisms have announced the release of their third studio album 'Drifter', their first in 10 years .

The follow-up to 2012's In Between, was produced by Shaun Durkan (Weekend, Soft Kill) and will be out on March 25 through Fire Talk. Pre-order your copy here.

Drifter is a record that finds steadiness in the embrace of uncertainty. Young Prisms have always delivered stories that have remained mostly shrouded in a dreamlike state, the kind of dreams where you never quite get to where you’re aiming to go, and the ones which unravel in melancholy when you open your eyes and reality sets in. With their first new music in ten years, the band explores the tension and release that comes with bringing your head down from the clouds and making sense of the tangible entanglements that make up everyday existence. "You’ve spent your whole life wondering if you’ll ever live up to your own expectations, but one day realize that it’s ok to just be a normal, boring human. You’re used to running away from life because you hate yourself and now you are pleasantly surprised by a new feeling to let go and accept yourself,” explains lead vocalist Stefanie Hodapp.

Speaking on the inspiration for the single, vocalist Stefanie Hodapp says, "Growing up, my grandmother would tell me that honeydew was her favorite melon. I was never fully convinced. I usually preferred cantaloupe and quite frankly thought she was full of shit because everyone knows cantaloupe tastes better. Clearly this was more of a pitch to her unwilling granddaughter. 'Honeydew' (the song) is about looking back on life and wishing for more, as if it wasn’t right or good enough. Hoping for a time machine to change history. Somehow that stubborn grandmother analogy makes sense now. A honeydew life won't ever be a cantaloupe life, but it's okay and can be just as satisfying if you accept it for what it is."

Drifter is the greater sum of its parts - a collaborative effort with all of the members contributing songwriting credits. Inherently, it represents a reprise, a second chance to present a full-formed vision that results in the band’s purest pursuit yet.

Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for their new single "Honeydew" below.

Honeydew Tracklist:

01. Above Water

02. Yourside

03. Honeydew

04. This Time

05. Violet

06. If Ever Now

07. Melt Away

08. Outside Air

09. Self Love

10. Months Ago

11. Around

12. Flight

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New Entry: SPRINTS Unleash New Single "Little Fix"

Dublin-based post-punk/garage band SPRINTS have unleashed their new single "Little Fix".

The song is taken from their forthcoming new EP ‘Modern Job’ set to arrive on March 11th via Nice Swan Records. Pre-order it here

On the new single, singer Karla Chubb says: "Plagued by insecurities, imposter syndrome and gender stereotypes, Little Fix is the culmination of all my fears - the, sometimes, self applied pressure that as a woman in music I can’t just be good, I have to be great. 

I feel like I am in a constant state of proving myself. That no matter what I achieve, learn, write, play or sing, there will always be a critic, a voice in the crowd or in my head telling me that it’s still not good enough, that there’s a million men out there who are better and I’ll always just be “good for a girl”.  

 

Little Fix is a song that instead of running away from that fear, shit talk and criticism, it runs head first at 100 miles an hour into it. Pulling influence from Thee Oh Sees and Courtney Barnett, it’s lyrically the song I am most proud of and one that on tour proved a serious fan favourite"

Have a listen below.

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Mitra Mitra Detail New LP 'Hands Remain', Stream Title Track

Vienna minimal synth/electronic/synth wave duo Mitra Mitra have revealed details of their sophomore full-length album 'Hands Remain'.

The follow-up to their 2018’s hugely well received debut Marionettes, was produced by the duo and will be out on January 17 through Polytechnic Youth. Pre-order it here.

The band was formed in Vienna in late 2014 by Violet Candide and Mahk Rumbae. Originally from New Zealand, Violet Candide has been a fixture of the Vienna post-punk and minimal synth scene for many years as a DJ before making music with Mitra Mitra and her other projects Slow Glass (with Bobby from Low Sea), Peppy Pep Pepper and Violetiger. Whilst British musician Mahk Rumbae is known for his work as a member of the industrial/experimental project Konstruktivists, Oppenheimer MkII (with Andy Oppenheimer of Oppenheimer Analysis) and his solo techno project Codex Empire.

The new LP is their strongest set yet; 'Hands Remain' is perhaps darker in nature than previous MM releases; although mostly completed before the pandemic, it somehow fits the times we live in now. A wonderful 12 track collection hugely recommended to fans of classic era synth pop, early Mute, Cherry Red, Blackwing Studios etc etc.

Check out the album's tracklist and listen to "Hands Remain" and "Insomnia" below.

Hands Remain Tracklist:

01. By Your Hand

02. Memories for Company

03. One and the Same

04. Dormant Carbon Coma

05. Hands Remain

06. Intersection

07. Vertigo

08. Ricochet

09. Monochrome

10. Insomnia 

11. Western Side

12. Gappy Spheres

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