Prisoner of Mars
A Night Out In The Wrong Shoes
Whereas his last album Lavender Larceny was a trawl through
the underbelly of garage-rock, the Prisoner of Mars new album
A Night Out In The Wrong Shoes is an altogether more candy-striped
and brightly-lit experience, a retro-phonic theme-park of his own
device.
The unexpectedly jazzy opener First Song On My New Album
is the taxi drop into the centre of all the commotion (despite the
chorus protest of Im waiting for you to take me home,
Ive run out of money and theres nowhere else to go)
with funky bass, keyboards and harmony vocals ushering the listener
along to the main rides, probably flanked by Pans People.
Dimension Man plays like an electro-pop funhouse mirror
right down to its staccato vocals and thematic pre-occupation
with disproportion while the epic musical arrangements of All
Your Sisters and Thief soar and dip in a way requires
a seat-belt to be worn at all times.
The real gem on this album is an all-too-brief foray into the nightclub
with You Can Dance If You Want To which lays down an groove
that sparkles, even more so when juxtaposed against its hilariously
disengaged lyric you can dance if you want to/ Ill just
stand over here. Its the climactic event in a record that
revels so much in seventies-era sonic stylings that it may as well
do so in stack heels. Certainly not the wrong shoes
Due for release 1.1.15 but available for pre order soon...
Rich
http://theprisonerofmars.com/album/a-night-out-in-the-wrong-shoes