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Psychogeography EP

by The Prongs

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A blistering brace of new belters from The Prongs, the lords of Dublin's lit-music underground. Seize this opportunity to acquire Psychogeography, Fleming and Toner's new four-track, 12-inch vinyl EP on Gangplank Recordings. Peruse its extensive four-page lyric booklet, memorise all the words and admire the rather cool photos of the full seven-piece band. And ask yourself this: just who are The Photographic Brains?

    Includes digital pre-order of Psychogeography EP. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    digital album releases May 23, 2024
    item ships out on or around July 1, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      €15 EUR or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Set yourself apart from the crowd and demonstrate your excellence of taste: get this four-track ep from The Prongs. Enter a vivid world and map its shifting soundscape for yourself. You will be humming Map of a City from its opening bars. By the 13th verse, you will never see urban space or cartography the same way again. This CD is a wallet-sleeved limited edition with a stark cover by Dave Clifford. It is on Gangplank Recordings. CDs are just one more modern format for this blistering brace of new belters from The Prongs.

    Includes digital pre-order of Psychogeography EP. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 23, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      €7 EUR or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Psychogeography EP. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases May 23, 2024

      €4 EUR  or more

     

1.
Map of a City 06:44
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MAP OF A CITY (Fleming/Toner) Map of a city Not to scale Map of a city Come here to fail Map of a city Postal code Map of a city The name of each road Map of a city Squalid lanes Map of a city Losses and gains Map of a city Crooked lines Map of a city Vacant building fines Map of a city Easy to fold Map of a city Bought and sold Map of a city Where do you fit in? Map of a city A decent skin Map of a city No kith nor kin Map of a city Printed on your mind Map of a city It knows your kind It knows you are kind. Map of a city Search high and search low Map of a city This zone’s no-go Map of a city I made it mine Map of a city I shaped each contour Map of a city I resisted its lure Map of a city By the time I left It was a map of a city Completely bereft A map of a city Which no longer bore Any faint resemblance To its original core Map of a city Sparkling and drab Map of a city Capital land grab Map of a city Fall off its grid Map of a city It’s where you were It’s what you did Map of a city The A to Z Map of a city Your life well-led Map of a city The hospital and the jail Map of a city Too big to fail Map of a city Shortcuts took me to the top Map of a city Psychogeography messed me up Map of a city I dismantled its urban folklore Map of a city It was mythic no more Mythic… mythic… mythic no more Map of a city By the time I left It was a map of a city Completely bereft A map of a city Which no longer bore Any resemblance To its original core. [TONER SHOUTS AROUND STREET CORNERS: “Map of a city… Map of a city…”]
2.
Truant
3.
Did Things by Halves
4.
The Photographic Brains

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The Prongs are proud to release their latest EP. Psychogeography's four new tracks deconstruct deft city living and urban unease.
Track1. Map of a City is a terse poetic anthem for the built environment. Set against a type of twisted timeless techno, it reveals "Shortcuts took me to the top/Psychogeography messed me up... Map of a city/The hospital, the jail/Map of a city/Too big to fail."
Track 2. Truant is about cod delinquency and the eternal Lord Byron within us that makes us want to go awol.
Track 3. Did Things by Halves appears to toy with schmaltz but ultimately brings tears to the eye as the penultimate word in procrastination. From the cool cameo intro by The Shend (of The Cravats, The Very Things and Anzahlung) onwards, this tune by The Prongs reminds you of the regrets and joys of a life half-lived.
Track 4. The Photographic Brains is an epic lyrical and musical tract about Joseph Kell, One Hand Clapping, Anthony Burgess, the long career of a band that rips off The Prongs for decades, fading memories and growing old disgracefully. It deserves to be a smash hit.

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releases May 23, 2024

Lyrics/voice: John Fleming
Music/production: Niall Toner Jr
Cover photography: Dave Clifford

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Ears tuned to the kaleidoscopic new wave, The Prongs are plugged in. Fleming’s words weave a memory net for years that never quite slipped by while Toner’s multi-instrumentalism mines eternal pop. It's a lyrical evocation of psycho-sociology and angry young manism aged into post-punk pop permanence. Dublin-based, The Prongs make literate catchy tunes fuelled by JF's lost novel The Now Now Express. ... more

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