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ANNIE STOKES, WILD ROSE
“Oh, I’m a vessel for the spark inside my mind / Oh, I’m a harbinger of the ones they left behind,” Virginia’s Annie Stokes sings on her latest release, a wonderfully produced EP of four songs, called Wild Rose. She carries with her in these songs her mother and her sisters (figurative or literal), her…
SLOT, LIMBO
With only two members, SLOT, the grungy punk, post-punk band from Baltimore, who “aim to be equal parts Nine Inch Nails and Mandy Moore,” have guitar (or is that distorted bass?) riffs for miles and enough energy to power a city block. “Goth pop” (one of their tags on Bandcamp) is about as close to…
KATE DAVIS, FISHBOWL
“Do you need a social commentary / Or apocalyptic romance? / With what shreds of freedom remain / Do you think you wanna dance?” Those are the questions Kate Davis puts in her golden indie voice on her second song off her latest release, Fish Bowl, released on Anti records last Friday. The album definitely…
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WHY PRISM REVIEWS?
Digging these albums
like ancient bones
for what they signify,
my relationship with music
has become archaeological.
If there is one human story,
I’ll find it by adding up
a million of them.
Feel the pain and pleasure,
the drowning and rising
of guitars and guts.
I’m lost and found,
over and over again.
There’s so much power
In these stories.
But like a movie:
even better
With a soundtrack.
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