Friends For Now
Album | Young Prisms
Promising debut from San Francisco shoegazers.
The press kit for Young Prisms' full-length debut claims that the San Francisco quintet held séances in their combination rehearsal space/studio/crash pad in an attempt to contact the spirits of San Francisco's earlier artistic giants. It seems the afterlife must have gotten its wires crossed, because instead of Kenneth Rexroth and Quicksilver Messenger Service, the ghosts of "Death Valley '69"-era Sonic Youth, Spacemen 3 and Galaxie 500 hang heavy over these 10 songs. Which is no bad thing, to be sure: feedback, distorted bass throb and diffident, indecipherable vocals are always welcome, and on tracks like the extended centerpiece "In Your Room," Young Prisms put the pieces together just right. But at this point in their nascent career, they haven't quite synthesized their cool influences into something all their own. For example, "Breathless" is an invigorating rush of propulsive drums, tactile layers of guitar noise, and all-but-buried vocals, but it also sounds shockingly similar to My Bloody Valentine circa Ecstasy and Wine. Admittedly, that level of comparison is its own form of high praise, but at this point it's an open question whether Young Prisms can transcend their influences.
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