War Prayers

The 11 unique songs of Young People's War Prayers are as varied and expressive as any collection in recent memory. The album, like the band, combines so many elements of American experience and song, that the result is a dizzyingly beautiful pop almost too special to describe. Imagine June Carter singing to John Cage's music, or early Bjork in her Sugarcubes years, making angular, American traditional songs. At times it mixes a Raincoats-on-Broadway feel in the most expressive way. The soaring vocals of Katie Eastburn (also of Janet Pants Dans Theeatre) are so lovely and luscious that the tense, angular, punk, and indie-rock influenced song structures of Jeff Rosenberg (Pink and Brown, Tarentel) and Jarrett Silberman (ex-Uphill Gardeners, The Get Hustle, the Jewws) seem to float in musical ether, alternately driving and dreamy.
For Fans of: Cat Power, Bjork, Nancy Sinatra, Young Marble Giants, Raincoats, Sonic Youth