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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
Music Reviews Artist: Prinzhorn Dance SchoolTitle: Up!Up!Up!/ Hamworthy Sports & Leisure Centre
  Sparse, stripped back and un-prententious, Prinzhorn Dance School brilliantly and effortlessly capture the post-punk sound that many other bands painstakingly try and emulate but miss something in trying too hard. There is a wonderfully loose, ramshackle funk in this release that mirrors ‘Eat Y’Self Fitter era Fall and ‘Shack Up’ era ACR.
A refreshing innocence and lack of production lends Up! Up! Up! In particular it’s irresistible charm. However, this is no twee cod-disco effort, as drum skins are battered to within an inch of their lives and bass lines are racked up in the mix causing speakers to protest, this is stirring stuff. Hearing how the band record (below) their cheerful clatter comes as no surprise:
“We started recording the album in a national trust cottage in Devon. We like to record by ourselves, in isolation. We packed all our equipment and a months worth of food into a van. But when we got there all we did was fight and get pissed. Eventually we got a half decent kick-drum sound but then got frustrated and threw the drum into the field. So we moved to a barn in Sussex. That felt much better…..We started to get the sounds we wanted. It felt special again. We didn't sleep much. We just went flat out to record the 16 songs.”
Vocals are shared around the band and it’s no small compliment that this band are a latter-day reincarnation of The Cramps and The B-52’s – with that all-important swagger of the aforementioned Fall.
The double A-side single ‘Up! Up! Up!/ Hamworthy Sports & Leisure Centre’ is out now on DFA Records.
Rating: 4/5
Words By: Mark Steel
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