May 25, 2014 POZ Review: Joie De Vivre, Prawn – Split I am an unabashed sucker for a bright melody paired with desperate vocals; the effect of this combination is just too much for my simple heart to bear. Throw in a slightly grooving mid-tempo drumbeat, and that’s it, it’s all over, I’m hooked — plain and simple. Safe to say, when the emo stars aligned and Joie de Vivre teamed up with Prawn to release a five song split, I knew I was in for fifteen minutes of head-rocking, heart-breaking, and hopelessly-romantic emotional gems. Read More>> May 25, 2014 ATP! Album Review: Prawn – Ships After a dreamy intro with distorted voice samples on “Costa Rica,”Prawn fold out “Grass and Bones,” where innocent lyrics reflecting on a breakup (“Will you remember those late night walks? Will you recognize me in 20 years?”) tactfully avoid the distractions of rhyme and strict form, letting the guitar pairing take on the responsibility. The most immediate intro on the album is with “Donald Domesky”(for which the band just released a video), whose mesmerizing simplicity of repetition and counterpoint between two guitars is broken by this amazing little moment of light-shaken cymbals and handclaps. Read More>>
May 25, 2014 ATP! Album Review: Prawn – Ships After a dreamy intro with distorted voice samples on “Costa Rica,”Prawn fold out “Grass and Bones,” where innocent lyrics reflecting on a breakup (“Will you remember those late night walks? Will you recognize me in 20 years?”) tactfully avoid the distractions of rhyme and strict form, letting the guitar pairing take on the responsibility. The most immediate intro on the album is with “Donald Domesky”(for which the band just released a video), whose mesmerizing simplicity of repetition and counterpoint between two guitars is broken by this amazing little moment of light-shaken cymbals and handclaps. Read More>>