Released: 2018
Label: Denovali
Genre: Contemporary
This brutally dazzling new album is the third piece of a trilogy that began in 2012 with I’m So In Love I Almost Forgot I Survived A Disaster. Part two followed three years later with Like a Pack of Hounds.
Prairie’s standard choice of instruments differs from what we’re used to from similarly noisy recordings. Jacobs puts his electric guitar to good (loud) use, along with effects pedals and a Hohner Orgaphon organ amp that dates back to 1963. He pushes a Yamaha synth and drum machine through the same amp. Then he takes the entire shuddering, chaotic mess and recuts it in post-production.
The result is a uniquely musical take on ambient noise that owes as much to European metal as it does electronics. After the Flash Flood is brutalist architecture come to life. It is that sickening sensation (captured in Sternfeld’s arresting photo) that someone’s world is about to end. The Moderns
The Moderns 
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