PRAIRIE CLAMOR - SPILLING LIGHT - FPM00015 available everywhere 27 March 2020
Preview the album NOW: prairieclamor.bandcamp.com
Friendly Puppy Music design department director Peter Bjorndal (bjornd.al) has provided particle-board-shattering design for FPM’s first ever regular-sized CDs and Cassettes! That’s right, I’ll say it again, FPM’s first ever regular-sized CDs and Cassettes! Welcome to the 20th century, Friendly Puppy Music!
Read our seems-like-it’s-being-over-the-top-but-honestly-it’s-kind-of-an-understatment album description and INITIATE HYPE:
Spilling Light is the second album from Prairie Clamor, the ever-evolving experimental pop project of Minnesotan Will Bjorndal. With an ear for catchy melodies, Prairie Clamor builds an expansive sonic landscape whilst remaining intimate and earnest. Recorded obsessively over 11 months, Spilling Light is a bedroom pop savant’s hopeful hymn to the anthropocene–to seek optimism without ignorance, hope and humor despite despair.
Spilling Light draws on disparate styles across the pop canon, flowing freely from maximalist psychedelia (Specific Gravity, Relief, Hold On!) to crunchy power pop (62 Blue), space country (Grass Between The Cracks I: Returning To The Earth), stadium rock and EDM (Pop Music Savior), piano balladry (Elma, The End?), bubblegum pop (Humus), tropicalia (Grass Between The Cracks II: Rest Stop Coffee Machine), heartland rock and folk blues (Plastic Chair), and even metal-turns-baroque-pop (Zipper Merge). Seemingly-separate genres are sewn together, yet when filtered through Spilling Light’s lens of maximalist bedroom pop, every track feels organic and true.
Through peaks of ethereal anthems to valleys of quiet intimacy, Bjorndal’s songwriting remains idiosyncratic-yet-focused. Layers of vocals sing of ecological collapse, ecological resilience, Minnesota State Highway 62, life, plastic chairs, death, Iowa, concrete, absurdity, actual joy, and actual reality. Eschewing posturing and sarcasm, Spilling Light’s honesty, humor, and penchant for catchiness are a breath of fresh air. Prairie Clamor does not seek to be the coolest and most ironic band on the block; they seek only pure expression, to unlock the potential of pop in the face of ever-increasing awfulness.
Keep Spilling Light.
