The Wonderful Shapes of Back Door Keys, by The Prophet Hens

The Wonderful Shapes of Back Door Keys

by The Prophet Hens

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The wonderful shapes and spiral grooves of an LP record is the perfect way to appreciate this album and its wondrous cover art. To add a CD copy of the album to your LP order simply add $7.50 to the price (eg: pay $35 or more rather than $27.50) & add a "plus CD" note with your order to remind us! Also available in the UK/ Europe from:
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This is the 21st century "Dunedin Jangle" LP starter pack - both albums by The Prophet Hens and the equally gorgeous album from Trick Mammoth. If you like guitars that jangle, ultra-melodic songwriting and the blend of male and female voices, then this set of 3 LPs is the perfect gateway to ecstasy for you.

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1.	Oh Wait It's Me Isn't It 04:01	buy track
2.	Popular People 03:48 video	buy track
3.	Basically 02:55	buy track
4.	Drunk In A Park 03:43 video	buy track
5.	Heavy Blossom 03:49	buy track
6.	Good Shadow 03:51	buy track
7.	Songman 03:57	buy track
8.	Friends 03:32	buy track
9.	I Might Not Be Right 03:15	buy track
10.	Only One 02:41	buy track
11.	D Modal 06:18	buy track

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The Prophet Hens‘ second album is melodic jangling guitars, swirling Casio keyboards & the voices of Penelope Esplin and Karl Bray singing upliftingly melancholic songs about hope & despair, joy & regret, ambition & reality, coming together & drifting apart.

Their 1st album made its mark all over the world, praised as “psychédélisme plaintif” by French music weekly Les Inrockuptibles, given 10/10 in reviews by UK mailorder specialists Norman Records’ staff and customers and featured on BBC 6Music shows by Marc Riley and Gideon Coe.

US music blog The Finest Kiss described it as “Chills meets Belle And Sebastian pop alchemy” before saying “The Prophet Hens may be better than both” and making it their #2 album of the year for 2013.

The 1st album “Popular People Do Popular People” is also being (re-)issued on LP at the same time as this new album comes out.
Available in the UK/ Europe from occultation.bandcamp.com/album/the-wonderful-shapes-of-back-door-keys

credits

released July 18, 2016

The Prophet Hens are:
Karl Bray (guitars, vocals)
Penelope Esplin (keyboards, vocals)
Robin Cederman (Bass, backing vocals)
Chris Butchard (drums)

All songs © Karl Bray, Robin Cederman
Recorded and mixed by Samdrub Dawa
Mastered by Tex Houston
Cover art: Plague Doctor by thecrankypainter.com
Thanks to Ian at Fishrider Records & Nick at Occultation Recordings
Our love and gratitude to friends & family for material and emotional support
www.fishriderrecords.com www.occultation.co.uk

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