After performing for nearly five years, The Prids have released a full-length album, Love Zero. A sleek 29 minutes and 42 seconds of pure Goth rock bliss.
it’s not impossible, but certainly unusual for a two-piece band to generate such depth of tone and weirdness. But these two guys are from the great Hammerhead.
While they don’t sound like The Strokes or The White Stripes or just about anybody else out there making noise, they bring the same gritty, dirty rocker ethos.
With Burt Bacharach arrangements, hearts and flowers lyrics, and baby-girl voice, Paula Kelley is an alt-pop siren calling out to shaggy-haired college boys.
The hook-centric and brightly-voiced musical choices lend a positive spin to themes as loneliness, insomnia, alienation, unrequited love, and depression.