Prawn release a new album this week, Run through Topshelf Records. Recorded in the space of just two weeks this March at The Barber Shop Studios, a lake-front old stone church in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey but made up of two years of work, this band return with an incredible new record.
This album from the start is impressive. The band’s way with words shines with full force as they bring in huge choruses and lines that captivate you on this record. Tracks such as Snake Oil Salesman certainly are proof of this, the lyricism is simple but effective on this record and it delivers throughout this album.
Where this band are truly at their best is melodically. Creative guitars that build in all the right moments and a timing throughout that works for this band, this band create melodies that makes you pay attention. Slowed down on tracks such as Short Stem, the drums add to the emotion of track, whereas the energetic pace on songs such as Rooftops in contrast, give it a more Rock vibe and lift this album at the right moment.
An album that sees this band return doing what they do well, this band melodically just work incredibly and this album is proof of that with dramatic guitars and drums that just bring the beat in with precise timing that adds to the atmospheric vibes of this record. Highlights for me on this album are Greyhound, Snake Oil Salesman and Rooftops, a must listen Emo record.
8.5/10.
Thinking Lyrically. 