Prismatics release new EP, Endlessly
The EP follows advance singles "Outside Looking" and "Every Smiling Thing"
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"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
"You wonder where it’s going but then it hits you with an unexpected hook of hidden beauty. That pretty much sums Endlessly up in a nutshell... and I, for one, am excited to see where they take themselves next." | GOD IS IN THE TV (8/10)
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The EP follows single 'Outside Looking', an all-too-relevant post-punk anthem about craving escapism in isolation, and “Every Smiling Thing," the latter of which was praised as "effortless dream pop" by The Big Takeover.
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.
Whether they eerily predict a desire to travel freely through the world on the aforementioned "Outside" or look beyond the painful realities of the last year to delve into the unexplainable and potentially magic moments of life on "Smiling," there's a stunning amount of relevancy and urgency in the band's revivalist sound.
“In spite of the challenges of this year, we were determined to make the best out of what we were given,” singer Brooke Austen tells Idioteq in a recent interview. "Even though this year looked different than any of us thought it would, the band and I have walked away with an unexpected inner peace. We know we have each other’s backs. We know that nothing can stop us from doing our work.”
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WATCH | "EVERY SMILING THING"
WATCH | "OUTSIDE LOOKING"
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” is a barreling mission statement for the EP, 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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