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Prizzy Prizzy Please
Chroma Cannon

Catalog Number: jnr47
Release Date: 04/20/10


CD + MP3: $10  

Vinyl + MP3: $12  
(black vinyl)

Cassette + MP3: $8  
(black tape)

MP3: $7  

Track List:

  1. Large Hadron Collider
  2. Lost
  3. Clarence
  4. Rocket Boots
  5. Supersized Hookup
  6. Pacific Garbage Patch
  7. No Fly Zone
  8. "--"
  9. New Shoes
  10. Ten Pin
  11. Air Splits
  12. 2020 Vision
  13. Drizzling Diamonds

In an overzealous effort to make the best of unemployment, Prizzy Prizzy Please have gone plaid with Chroma Cannon. With a 30th century aesthetic, the album rockets through hyperactive hits that hope to imbue melodic noise punk (reminiscent of Parts and Labor, Lightning Bolt) with the spirit of fourth-quarter pump-up jams by Van Halen and the E Street Band.

Though Chroma Cannon prominently displays Prizzy Prizzy Please's technical prowess, the songs are thematically fixated on science fantasy and thoughtful, unpretentious humor. The song "Pacific Garbage Patch" is a fictional first-person tale of a shopping bag surfing the waves to join the rest of his buddies in the Pacific Trash Vortex(1); and "Large Hadron Collider" is the story of ambitious Swiss(2) physicists who have an epiphanic encounter with a man from the future who warns them not to flush the Earth into a black hole.

Prizzy Prizzy Please, presently stationed in a Chicago basement, got their start in the basements of Bloomington, Indiana. Since 2007 they have been campaigning across the United States in a decomposing van, enthusiastically making their way through a network of unruly house shows and five-band bills where they are consistently odd men out.

Standing out has worked well for this heavy metal band of colorful eccentrics. They have no guitarist, no decent equipment, and are fronted by a timid alto saxophonist who howls like Bon Scott. Even so, time and time again, Prizzy Prizzy Please have won over wide-ranging audiences with their inexhaustible energy and manic showmanship.

Footnotes:
1) The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, n. also known as The Pacific Trash Vortex, is a toxic gyre of rancid, post-consumer waste in the central North Pacific Ocean. It lies roughly between 135' to 155'W and 35' to 42'N and is estimated to be twice the size of Texas.
2)'Swiss', adj. used to describe dudes from Switzerland; also n., a delicious type of holey cheese.

"Chroma Canon finds itself lodged between the world of sweaty, whiskey-swilling trash rock cliche and postured art-rock pose-downs: It's arty if you're inclined to attack your music that way, with sax and keys yakking and whirring and creating quite a wall of abstract melodies. It's also really rowdy and liable to get your blood pumping if you let it, and after a few songs into this album, it's hard not to let it."
Aversion

"Any band that can create infectious punk rock without using a single electric guitar has piqued my taste buds."
The Phantom Tollbooth

"Hyper drummer + hyper-awkward singer + buzz-happy synth + Bloomington-punk-style-enthusiasm = Prizzy Prizzy Please. Their earlier music centered around a child-like attitude of getting stoked about rad stuff happening, like winning T-shirt-wearing contests, and celebrated it with the most bizarre synth-skronk-rock attitude stemming from a college atmosphere or a demented love for Load records. Chroma Cannon does find them getting "serious" a couple of times, like with their venture into Grizzly Bear territory on "Lost," which hints at a more expansive direction for the future. But this is a brief detour before they return to their patented brand of amphetamine Sega Genesis-rock with "No Fly Zone" to remind you why you love them. "
LEO Weekly

"Prizzy Prizzy Please are most defiantly near impossible to pigeon hole. Straddling many different styles but constantly rallying against each said genre when it becomes too comfortable... the band keeps it short and focused while still bringing the Van Halen-esque rock outs and synth blasts to a natural balance. It keeps your attention almost constantly and the energy is sustained over the course of these thirteen tracks. In fact my biggest criticism of this album is the fact you have to wait until track 9 for the brilliance of "New Shoes". A song, that perfectly sums up Prizzy Prizzy Please's skills and talent. It seriously is one of the best songs I have heard all year."
DSD

"More listenable than the noise rock and less boring than pop punk... Chroma Cannon is a cathartic explosion of energy and a torrent of lava rock in a merger... Ladies and gentlemen, the fourth dimension awaits."
The Rainbow Music (France)

"...a sonic blueprint that is equal parts futuristic and retro, equal parts classic rock shapes with pop sensibilities and electronic futuristics. Proudly sporting no guitarist, PPP instead fill out these high energy juggernauts of noise-pop with apoplectic rumbles of propulsive bass, bubbling keyboard textures and squawks of saxophone from lead howler/saxophonist Mark Pallman, who possesses one potent set of pipes... The whole album rattles along at a merciless, insistent & blistering pace and when they hit a brisk stride, on the likes of 'Clarence' 'Supersized Hookup' or 'Large Hadron Collider' they sound vital and virtually unstoppable..."
Americana UK

"Prizzy Prizzy Please give us a seriously energized album infused with the spirit and swagger of equal parts Andrew W.K., Lightning Bolt, and AC/DC. Frantically distorted keyboards bleep and bloop - imbuing the sound of every shred-tastic Eddie Van Halen finger tap, while simultaneously managing to sound like a Nintendo game that just froze on your TV screen... Prizzy Prizzy Please are the type of mania inducing, sweaty basement show playing, un-ironic, positively-party-your-ass-off type of band that can serve as the soundtrack to the both the indie rocker and the jock anthemers. If there is a band that can be labeled as Arena Noise Rock, then Prizzy Prizzy Please is it. "
Two One Five Magazine

"Realistically, Prizzy Prizzy Please is doing something genuinely original. They front with a saxophone and play gnarly crushing concept jams about science fantasy, babes, super conductor time travel, more babes, floating garbage, and other really funny crap. And true to their press, they are plausibly from the future looking back on us shaking their heads."
Eastern Surf Magazine

"Every once in a while, a band comes around that combines everything you love about music (and a few things that you didn't even know you loved) into one perfect package. Right now, that band is Chicago, IL/Bloomington, IN wunderpunk group Prizzy Prizzy Please. The goofy four-piece has managed to successfully blend the clever song craft of Fugazi with the idiotic arena howl of AC/DC--the effortless eclecticism of Talking Heads with rhythmic elements of classic funk. On their latest album, Chroma Cannon, Prizzy has created a sensational work of universal melodies, hilarious subject matter and superb musicianship... "
PunkNews.Org

"...encompasses the eccentric pop of Talking Heads, the intelligent punk of Fugazi and the mindless fun of ACDC... Chroma Cannon is the band's most fully-realized release to date"
Nuvo

"Prizzy Prizzy Please's sort of unspoiled demeanor delivers on an album we hardly ever see the anymore. It straddles indie cred and pop sensibilities effortlessly, the instrumentation is slick, the songs demand attention and the peaks explode into life. It's of-a-piece enough to work as a headphones experience and bombastic enough to grace mixtapes. And above all, it's just fun as hell."
Delusions Of Adequacy

"Fronted by a wild saxophonist that wails like Bon Scott after a route canal without Novocain, here's a band that can turn any damp basement into a space aged Twister competition. I've got a couple of discs (vinyl and plastic) by these guys and they all get played regularly. Prizzy Prizzy Please isn't the poster child for rock convention, and to further this notion, the new album, Chroma Cannon thwarts standard rock protocol by using minimal guitar. Instead you get Casio keyboards and sax. The songs are frantic and chaotic with razor sharp humor that's dark as night. Maybe the world isn't ready for this band."
Evil Needles

"Interesting hard-hitting underground pop/rock from Chicago's Prizzy Prizzy Please. This isn't an easy album for the average consumer to take in. These guys have a hard rocking sound but the vocal melodies are always distinct and recognizable. In trying to come up with a reference point or comparison...the only other band that comes to mind while spinning Chroma Cannon is The Mint Chicks...although some of the musical experimentation reminds us of some of the more progressive sounding punk bands from the late 1970s. We would be willing to bet that these guys put on a mind-blowing live show. "
Babysue

"It is a sound that is a combination of influences and hard to pin down, but once you find yourself singing along and thrashing about you won't care what it sounds like anymore."
The Deli

"The new songs are a great step forward for the Prizzies with a much more solid and mature sound. Don't get me wrong, the song topics are still based on bowling matches, space adventures, TV shows, and shoes, but they sound less college party."
HipsterSpinster

"Prizzy Prizzy Please make an awesome brand of modern, noise punk-pop crossed with all that was best in 80s cock rock. Come on, there was some "best" in 80s cock rock! Anyway, these guys are bringing back the swagger and the fun."
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