The vast majority of the recent DFA output has had me gurning so much
I’ve had to be admitted to hospital to get my face put right (nope not in the
bed next to indietronica…..). Let’s face it folks… it’s largely been
shit. Well done EMI for getting on about a year too late. So we have a new 7”
in by PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL which is DFA’s first new signing
for ages. And I have to say it’s a goodie. There’s some slacker elements of The
Fall in there in it…. A nice lazy bass, some really old sounding drums and
some scratchy sounding guitars carry this along nicely to what amounts to
actually being a decent 7”. After hearing this you’d be perfectly within
your rights to question if it’s not really from 25 yeas ago. 'You Are The
Space Invader' is 7” only and limited to 500 copies. Honest….
Love this record? Hate it? Tell us.
What their label says...
Prinzhorn Dance School release their debut 7" single “You Are The Space Invader / Eat Sleep” ,marking the first full non-USA signing for the label. Boy/girl Prinzhorn Dance School write and record music in a disused chapel in Portsmouth, England. Media-shy - in that they find interviews stressful, photo-shoots vain, press releases dishonest and superlatives embarrassing - they prefer the isolation of their working space, writing and recording privately in their own austere and peculiar way. Their motivation and driving force is repetition and routine. It’s entrenched in their daily lives and in the music they make, which is often mathematical, rigidly working to a map, a system. The music is uncompromising and sparse - stripped right back to the bare bones. And in an era when the whole world is a music critic, it resists convenient pigeonholing, a frustration for some, refreshing for others. They will record their album in the UK in December before heading to New York in the new year, working with the DFA to finish it all off. The debut long player will be released in the spring of 2007.
