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After the Flash Flood

by Prairie

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Flash Flood 05:36
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Raindeaf 03:46
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Sisters 05:06
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Prairie is the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Marc Jacobs, hailing from Brussels with roots in The Netherlands. He previously released an EP (I'm so in love I almost forgot I survived a Disaster - 2013) and an LP (Like a Pack of Hounds - 2015) on the Berlin imprint Shitkatapult. On stage, Prairie plays with two or three musicians and together they re-create a free association of musical ideas and atmospheres. Prairie has played in selected venues and festivals across Europe and toured with Apparat in 2016.

If the apocalypse was painted in several layers of pastel gouache, its soundtrack might be PRAIRIE's After the Flash Flood. Listening to the album, we drift through a series of frozen landscapes that gesture at a post-apocalyptic ambience. This is a kind of blackened music that has been left to sediment, excavated from traces in ice core samples. After the Flash Flood showcases a deep sensitivity to narrative and rich cinematic textures as Marc Jacobs returns with palimpsestic sonic layers. It has been three years since PRAIRIE's last release——the 2015 Cormac McCarthy-inspired Like a Pack of Hounds——and it is clear that it has been several years of pensive reflection. Now, PRAIRIE takes the sentiment of his 2012 debut, I'm So In Love I Almost Forgot I Survived A Disaster, several steps further: it is after the apocalypse, and no one has survived. And yet with After the Flash Flood, we can hear the hum of this impossible future.

'After the Flash Flood' introduces the sonic ruins of distorted guitars, field recordings, drum programming and synths that create the textures of the entire album. The melancholic and subdued black metal churn of 'Raindeath' becomes the cold backdrop for unnerving, paranoiac speech. The third track, 'Sisters', foregrounds this coldness while slowly moving away toward alternate vistas where the acoustic timbres of the saz-driven 'A Permanent War Economy' take over. 'Underwater Body Hunting' and 'Rabid Ibrahim' are hard hitting beat-oriented tracks that insist on burning slow. There is a patience with PRAIRIE's After the Flash Flood that is difficult to deny. The lamentation of 'Elephants Will Rise Again' perhaps signals that it is not only the human that is lost after catastrophe. The album closes with 'Hard Water: Cracked Ice' and 'Hayashi Clock'. The former is a beautiful coalescence of clean harmonious tones and softly overdriven drums; while the latter brings us back to a meditative state, drifting through the final pastel tapestry.

""A finely-woven maelstrom of frothing textures and mazy, multi-layered constructions, AFTER THE FLASH FLOOD evokes images of barren post-apocalyptic landscapes and desperate plights. Meshing variedly coarse-grained elements – from FX-drenched guitar riffs to feverish percussions, via subtle field recordings and blurred-out synth dirges – through a weatherbeaten sound design that verges on the downright noisey, Jacobs delivers an album both hardy and strikingly emotive." (INVERTED AUDIO)


"... his cosmos is located somewhere between Bohren & der Club of Gore and Sunn O))), ambient is as familiar to him as brachial sounds, and he is as much acquainted with guitars as with synths and modern technology" (GROOVE)

"... sounds like a requiem for this broken world." (SPEX)

"... Like Ben Frost, (Prairie) exudes a certain harshness while tempering his work with moments of sublime beauty. This isn’t club material; it’s music for the hammer in one’s hand, the confrontation of the demon, the soul-shattering revelation." (A Closer Listen)

"unusual trip into disturbing soundscapes... (the tracks) possess a broadness, drama and depth, which by far exceed any conventions" (Musikexpress)

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A soundtrack to the apocalypse painted in pastel gouache. "sounds like a requiem for this broken world" SPEX "(Prairie) exudes a certain harshness while tempering his work with moments of sublime beauty." A CLOSER LISTEN

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released April 27, 2018

written and performed by Marc Jacobs
produced and mastered by Frédéric Alstadt at Angstrom studios, Brussels.

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