Ears Wide Open: The Prix's grander new sound
[One in a series highlighting new music by Los Angeles bands:]
On its first album two years ago, the Prix gave us a collection of two-days-away-from-a-razor power pop that displayed quite a bit of muscle and maybe a little moxie, not to mention a kinship with decades of artists who honed their hooks in a garage. If "Frix the Prix" got only a modest reception, it might have been because the Prix never bothered to slather its retro feel in eight layers of irony.
"St. Domino," the new EP from the quartet, expands its palette considerably, with touches of glam and new wave seeping into six rollicking songs recorded at Red Rockets Glare studio with Raymond Richards and Dan Long. You might even hear a little Smiths along with the quartet's frenetic piano lines and harmonies. The Prix (Cashew Von Harding, Blake Jordan, Zach Ziegler and Stephen Mills) are the resident band this month at club Kiss or Kill (recently moved to Wednesday nights at El Cid). This week, they celebrate the release of "St. Domino" at Kiss or Kill with support from Star No Star, the Power Cords and Service Group.
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Photo of the Prix by Sterling Andrews. [Thanks to reader A. Martinez for the reminder.]
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The Prix are one of the best and most deserving rock bands in LA today... Kudos for covering this group. They are gonna get huge on the strength of this record.
Cheers,
Patrick Cleary
The Digs
Posted by: Patrick Cleary | July 17, 2007 at 05:42 PM
As an Englishman I think I'm safely qualified to discuss irony, in fact I have recently been certified by the English Irony Society to prove that that is the case. I'd like to say that The Prix are the only American band I would allow to dabble with any of my country's prize export (that being irony, of course).
They also rock wonderfully well.
Your sincerely,
Andrew Shanahan.
Englishman and purveyor of fine ironies.
Posted by: Andrew Shanahan | July 18, 2007 at 12:50 PM
The Prix is proving itself. And the shot of them surrounded in red gives a feeling of power. Why no credit to the photographer? It's a great shot.
Posted by: A Martinez | July 19, 2007 at 10:48 AM