Prismatics premiere "Every Smiling Thing" on The Big Takeover
The second single from their upcoming EP, Endlessly, out January 15th
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November 12th, 2020 -- Earlier today, Missouri-based four-piece Prismatics announced "Every Smiling Thing," the second single from their upcoming EP Endlessly, with a premiere on The Big Takeover.
"Lead single 'Outside Looking' charged out of the gate as an all-too-relevant post-punk anthem about craving escapism after a period of isolation; now “Every Smiling Thing” takes the band’s ability to write effortless dream pop and looks into the everyday supernatural," The Big Takeover writes.
Recorded at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Prismatics was forced to individually record from each members' living space in the weeks following stay-at-home orders, although it's hard to discern any disconnection in their motorik rhythm section or the synthesizing of new wave greats. For "Every Smiling Thing" though, the band looked beyond the painful realities of 2020, delving into the unexplainable and potentially magic moments of life.
“Every Smiling Thing grapples with ascribing supernatural meaning to both deeply healing and unexplained phenomena in life, as well as the seemingly mundane and even foolish,” singer Brooke Austen tells TBT. "What are the repercussions of seeing magic everywhere? What are the repercussions of never seeing magic at all? It’s about challenging both the reckless dreamer and the hardline logician.”
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"A jangly post-punk track that’s turbo-charged by the otherworldly vocals of Brooke Austen" // Cool Hunting
"Studied in post punk greats like Siouxsie and The Banshees and Echo & The Bunnymen, Prismatics sound urgent and vital... "Outside” is a bonafide anthem for escapism in the COVID age." // Spill Magazine
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Prismatics is a Missouri-based four-piece influenced by the new wave, dream pop, and post punk movements before them, but informed by harrowing realities of modern life around them. Earlier this year, vocalist/keyboardist Brooke Austen, guitarist/vocalist Josh Clark, bassist/vocalist Jo Bossi, and drummer Ben Stenberg were set to record the follow-up to their 2018 debut New Emotion when coronavirus took hold.
“Much of the songwriting process began shortly before the pandemic took place,” Austen recalls. “When the time came to record, we found ourselves miles away from each other and operating remotely.”
Relying on a self-described Frankenstein’s monster of recording setups, the band had no choice but to try their hand at recording separately from their homes, eventually forming the songs on this January’s Endlessly EP. Pulling from miscommunication in the social media age, the dichotomy of passive people turning into agitators online, and a longing to be authentically known, Endlessly is a modern answer for the urgent, yet accessible drive of new wave greats like Siouxsie and The Banshees and Echo and The Bunnymen.
First single “Outside Looking” (out October 16th) is a barreling opening statement, charged with Austen’s ethereal delivery and a Night of the Living Dead-inspired video that matches Stenberg and Bossi’s thrumming rhythmic build.
“Initially, I had escapism on my mind,” Austen adds. “I wanted to write a summer road trip song for those of us who have spent a lot of time living vicariously through others. When travel became impossible this year, a different perspective was born out of a real sense of physical, rather than purely emotional, isolation. Now, instead of being on the outside looking in, we are all on the inside looking out.”
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