<a href="http://incubation.atmyheels.com/torrents-details.php?id=69" target="_blank">http://incubation.atmyheels.com/torrents-details.php?id=69</a><div><br></div><div>Four consecutive nights of putting up these recordings conclude with the Young Prisms, whose combo of MBV/shoegaze/fourtwenty+garage sound has gotten some attention.</div>
<div>This was the first time seeing them...</div><div><br></div><div>Rather than replicate what I wrote for the torrent writeup, here's some quite candid iPhone Notepad banter (talking while taping is verboten):</div>
<div><br></div><div>Floating In Blue</div><div><br></div><div><span style>S: I am in Camden and it is 1991.</span><br style><br style><span style>S: "the scene that celebrates itself", forget which uk music tabloid hack coined that term, but it definitely applies here.</span><br style>
<br style><span style>S: This is their best song, which sounds like MBV crossed w/Pale Saints</span></div><div><br style><span style>T: ALL their songs sound like MBV</span><br style><br style><span style>S: True</span><br style>
<br style><span style>S: Earlier, before the first band went on, Loveless wasn't played over the PA</span><br style><br style><span style>2nd to last song, Four Hours (Away)</span><br style><br style><span style>S: This sound like a slowed down The Last Of The Famous Int'l Playboys, vocal melody</span><br style>
<br style><span style>T: It's not that bad</span><br style><br style><span style>S: Didn't say it was, just derivative</span><br style><br style><span style>S: Plus u have a thing for Ashley Thomas. Sounds like a porn name. </span><span style>Haha.</span><br style>
<br style><span style>T ...</span></div><div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>With that said, ended up liking them a fair bit, though they had near-zero stage presence...though the line from Stefanie the singer about them being from Belmont got a few chuckles...right next door to Terry Malts, whose singer/bassist Phil Benson is from neighboring Redwood City.</span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>--Sam</span></div>