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Prism Shores

city: Montreal
country: Canada
genre: Indie
styles: Dream Pop, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Jangle Pop, Shoegaze, C86

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Tourniquet

out on November 22, 2024

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Prism Shores today releases "Tourniquet", the second single from their new album "Out From Underneath" out on January 17th.

“This is the most straight-ahead power pop track we’ve written. The idea was to make the track sound like Teenage Fanclub with MBV glide guitar. Turned out pretty close to that concept — I think it’s my favorite track on the album. Our drummer Luke plays the lead guitar riff on this one and Ben plays a ripping Kaplan-style solo at the end. It also has backing vocals from our friend KT Laine, one of her four contributions to the record. Lyrically, it’s about reckoning with unhealthy self-criticism and dependency on certain coping mechanisms”.-Prism Shores

Prism Shores are Montreal janglers with one foot planted in ramshackle C86-indebted indie pop and the other in the shimmer of early English shoegaze. Their sound is reminiscent of perennial genre reference points (Sarah, Creation, Flying Nun) while leaving its own idiosyncratic stamp.

Out From Underneath finds the band widening their sonic palette by combining live-to-tape performances with atmospheric overdubbing and studio experimentation, confidently settling into more ambitious textures and arrangements. Lyrically, the album tackles young adult ennui and the adjustment of settling in an unfamiliar city, detailing the growing pains experienced during a time of upheaval. It is contemplative and chock-full of emotional depth — a nighttime album that channels self-reflexive melancholy into some form of catharsis.

[meritorio records]