CD - housed in a gatefold wallet sleeve.
A blistering brace of new belters from The Prongs, the lords of Dublin's lit-music underground. Seize this opportunity to acquire Psychogeography, Fleming and Toner's new four-track EP on Gangplank Recordings.
PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY will melt the compass of your heart and mind with its themes of existential dislocation, cod delinquency, half-heartedness and the sincerity of plagiarism.
With stunning cover photography by Dave Clifford, the CD is housed in a lovely gatefold wallet sleeve. The 12-inch vinyl (due at a later date) additionally comes with a 12-inch four-page lyric insert booklet with an additional collage of photos of The Prongs in live performance by Cormac Figgis and Gerry Doyle.
Map of a City is an ode to the built environment and the tunnel of mystery that links every urban space. Its musical landscape is twisted timeless techno.
Truant is a manifesto for being awol. It paints the eternal Lord Byron lurking within every caged city life: “The babbling brook/The crimes for a crook/ Adventures
lifted right out of a book”.
Did Things By Halves deploys 1970s melodrama and power chords to poignantly sketch how a full life is always cursed by incompletion. It features a cameo introduction from The Shend (The Very Things/The Cravats) and has been acclaimed as the penultimate word in procrastination. Please see new video on YouTube.
The Photographic Brains is an epic cinematic work shot through the sonic prism of The Prongs forgiving a band of their would-be musical imitators while musing on the multiple mirroring of all art and the fading of youth and memory. It is a Krautrocking deconstruction of intertextuality, the ultimate pockmarked postmodern 8-min pop song, The Prongs at their very peak: “Fake stars we fell to earth from our psychosocial orbit/Our thoughts grew dark and increasingly morbid.”
Tracklist:
1. Map of a City [06:44]
2. Truant [04:14]
3. Did Things by Halves [04:01]
4. The Photographic Brains [7:44]