Last year, the jangly Montreal indie-pop band Prism Shores caught our attention with their album Out From Underneath. Now, they’ve already got another full-length ready to drop. This spring, Prism Shores will release Softest Attack, the new LP that they recorded with Preoccupations/Ribbon Skirt collaborator Scott “Monty” Munro. That title is half-right. The album’s opening track does attack, but it’s not all that soft.
Softest Attack kicks off with a fast, giddy sha-la-la power-pop attack called “Kid Gloves.” All of the band members sing on it, and their overlapping harmonies come out what I guess I’d call a fired-up sigh. There’s a bit fo shoegaze swoosh in all the effects-heavy guitars, but this is trebley, energetic music that owes a whole lot more to the OG twee bands of the ’80s and ’90s. Below, check out “Kid Gloves” and the Softest Attack tracklist.
TRACKLIST:
01 “Kid Gloves”
02 “Lying In Wait”
03 “I Didn’t Mean To Change My Mind”
04 “Gossamer”
05 “Idle Again”
06 “Magical Thinking”
07 “Nothing To Find”
08 “Precarity”
09 “A Faster Gun”
10 “Guidebook”
11 “Resigned To The Fact”
12 “Twist The Knife”
Softest Attack is out 4/10 on Meritorio/Having Fun (Canada). Pre-order it here.
