Young Prisms

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Within reverberating walls and echoing chambers of noise, San Francisco shoegaze outfit Young Prisms adds just the right touches of pop and dissonance to form a balanced blend of psychedelic melodies and spaced out effects. Calling San Francisco home and invoking the influences of the city’s many musical ghosts, Young Prisms is reflecting an ever expressive spectrum of sounds born out of the group’s collective subconscious. Currently a five piece, and highlighted by dazzling effects and ambient guy/girl vocals, the band lovingly drifts in and out dreamy atmospheres and hazy aesthetics with surprisingly poignant results. My Bloody Valentine squalls of fuzzed ferocity coalesce with Sonic Youth slacker appeal and a distinctly Californian sensibility that allows for a relaxed, yet exciting experimental vibe throughout Young Prisms output. It’s as if the band brilliantly assembled the best aspects of the most mind blowing music they’ve encountered over the last twenty five years and took up the torch in stride.

Young Prisms first releases took on the familiar form of spilt cassettes and small batch EPs, before in-the- know label Mexican Summer first caught their scent and helped put Young Prisms on the map with their self-titled debut EP in 2009. Pulsing with a dark rhythm, Young Prisms blazed a trail that saw them sharing releases and tours with the likes of Small Black and Weekend, all while maintaining a lovingly nonchalant grip on the wheel. Often wandering but never distracted, Young Prisms have kept a remarkably steady work ethic for a band so often alterna- tively labeled. Last year saw the group release their best work yet in their first LP, Friends For Now, out on the equally respected Kanine Records. Radiating and expansive, Young Prisms is a white hot beam of shoegaze and garage rock that simply melts away any resistance your eardrums may have been foolish enough to attempt.

CHARLIE SWANSON

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