The Prids
Do I Look Like I’m In Love?, the new full-length from The Prids, illustrat… Read Full Bio ↴Do I Look Like I’m In Love?, the new full-length from The Prids, illustrates the Portland dark pop band’s mettle through keen lyrical observations, but also in its attention to sonic detail and song craft—this record couldn’t have been made by any other band at any other time. “Do I Look Like I’m In Love?” and “The Shape” both swirl and build like dreams filled with grey skies and the flickering faces of past friends and lovers. These songs nudge up against the air-brushed punk of “Lie Here” and the bass-driven “Colliding,” which recalls the dazed jangle of early R.E.M. More than two decades in, The Prids have made the best and most cohesive album of their career.
The fact that there’s even a new Prids record is a miracle. In March of 2015 bassist-vocalist Mistina La Fave suffered a brain hemorrhage the night before the band was scheduled to enter the studio. The recovery was physically and mentally taxing, and La Fave is lucky to be alive, let alone playing and performing again. The Prids’ 22 years have been marked with death, sickness, divorce, and a near-fatal van crash that cut a tour short and left members bloody and broken—but they survive through the friendship and bond of founding members La Fave and guitarist-vocalist David Frederickson. While those events have invariably made their way into the band’s narrative, the two simply chalk it up to life.
They met in La Fave’s small hometown of Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1995, not long after Frederickson had moved there from Southern California. They started a relationship (they divorced in 2001, not long after they married), formed The Prids, and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, before settling in Portland, Oregon, in 1999. In that time they’ve released four full-lengths and a trail of EPs, toured all over the world, while gaining the respect of bands throughout Portland for their tenacity and longevity (The Prids are one of the longest-running active bands in the city). They continue to make music for the right reasons—with or without a label, for themselves. A few years ago they brought in drummer Gordon Nickel and multi-instrumentalist Tim Yates, their sturdiest lineup to date. These four individuals are what make Do I Look Like I’m In Love? such a special record.
Throughout it all The Prids have remained completely DIY (the band even launched its own label/artist collective This-a-Way Records in 1996). Their videos and album art are as brilliantly conceived as the music itself. And in 2017 the Prids are playing with the same ardor they did 20 years ago. They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and this band is the embodiment of that.
The fact that there’s even a new Prids record is a miracle. In March of 2015 bassist-vocalist Mistina La Fave suffered a brain hemorrhage the night before the band was scheduled to enter the studio. The recovery was physically and mentally taxing, and La Fave is lucky to be alive, let alone playing and performing again. The Prids’ 22 years have been marked with death, sickness, divorce, and a near-fatal van crash that cut a tour short and left members bloody and broken—but they survive through the friendship and bond of founding members La Fave and guitarist-vocalist David Frederickson. While those events have invariably made their way into the band’s narrative, the two simply chalk it up to life.
They met in La Fave’s small hometown of Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1995, not long after Frederickson had moved there from Southern California. They started a relationship (they divorced in 2001, not long after they married), formed The Prids, and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, before settling in Portland, Oregon, in 1999. In that time they’ve released four full-lengths and a trail of EPs, toured all over the world, while gaining the respect of bands throughout Portland for their tenacity and longevity (The Prids are one of the longest-running active bands in the city). They continue to make music for the right reasons—with or without a label, for themselves. A few years ago they brought in drummer Gordon Nickel and multi-instrumentalist Tim Yates, their sturdiest lineup to date. These four individuals are what make Do I Look Like I’m In Love? such a special record.
Throughout it all The Prids have remained completely DIY (the band even launched its own label/artist collective This-a-Way Records in 1996). Their videos and album art are as brilliantly conceived as the music itself. And in 2017 the Prids are playing with the same ardor they did 20 years ago. They say what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and this band is the embodiment of that.
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The Prids Lyrics
All Apart and No Fall Broken crush don't try to leave us there I don't imagine…
All that You Want Feel something Fill us all with Your new brand of fear Al…
Artificial Heart Designer Astral projectionist...Tuesdays are fine I just can't handl…
Back Up Slow You need to back up slow You hear a mating call Of…
Before We Are All your designs Go perfect in my hell The tears just seem…
Break Time Turns us into stone You'll be alright There was some…
Contact Of love and of all things cold And do you come…
Desolate I've seen what you've got inside Desolate after fire drill …
Duracraft She's seen in plastic Solar spies Die-cast temple In ever…
Forever Again Wake up where you are Almost touched again Her name is Cen…
Fragile With every mile lose your ties to this life And when…
Hide Your Thoughts Love you, my fatalist commands I'll lie around with all the…
I'll Wait Watch yourself, you might end up with feelings Lose your re…
In the Fall In my head In my head you're no longer there In the…
Infection Before you read my mind Kill a random star Oh, don't...lea…
Let It Go Disassociated patterns Giving nothing away I blame all the…
Like Hearts The alarms a go She said, she set Like hearts For him to…
Llorar Beyond the color, beams the messages Every minute tells me …
Love Zero You'll be the furthest thing away I'll be punctured under j…
Not Even Sometimes You can't turn off What's never been on Document the break…
Shadow and Shadow I should have shown up so much later Attracted to the…
Sydney Exist Too much Describes Your touch Our time Removed R…
The Glow Long for my eyes arrested Opened and capturing Your glow s…
The Problem All the fire, Breathing girls dismantled Can forget about …
Tonight October He wants to help you wake up all alone here Where…
Waste Our Time Just fast enough I'll wait till you drop Left, nothing's w…
When I Look When I look I'm missing parts of me Like a spider…
You As the Colorant All the fire, Breathing girls dismantled Can forget about …