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Franz Kafka / Prefab Sun [7" single]

by The Prefab Messiahs

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Franz Kafka 03:03
[lyrics by Xerox Feinberg] One morning, as I awoke from uneasy dreams I found myself transformed in my bed -- into Franz Kafka! One day I woke up and I was Franz Kafka One day I woke up and I was Franz Kafka I -- I was metamorphosized I, I, I, I, I, I, I became a grasshopper, oh yeah One day I woke up and I was Franz Kafka One day I woke up and I was Franz Kafka I -- I was metamorphosized I, I, I, I, I, I, I became a grasshopper, oh yeah Franz Kafka!
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Prefab Sun 02:58
[lyrics by Xerox Feinberg & Trip Thompson] I had a vision driving home from the shopping mall Dishpan hands grabbed for me and I began to fall Twinkie wrappers bind the dreams the Golden Arches state Walking down the aisles there, I saw the Savior's face In swirling clouds of TV fuzz transcending time and space The pizza trays and drive-in banks all beg for our embrace Under a Prefab Sun, under a Prefab Sun Under a Prefab Sun As I awoke from behind that steering wheel I didn't know what I'd find or what I'd feel Twinkie wrappers bind the dreams the Golden Arches state Walking down the aisles there, I saw the Savior's face In swirling clouds of TV fuzz transcending time and space The pizza trays and drive-in banks all beg for our embrace Under a Prefab Sun, under a Prefab Sun Under a Prefab Sun

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A self-described "1982 Wormtown vault extraction", released both as a 7" vinyl single by Almost Ready Records (Brooklyn) and digitally via Bandcamp.

"Cobbwebbed-basement mystery surrounds this early-80s Worcester MA combo that dared (if they were even aware of it) to infuse proto-lo-fi post-punk clatter with drizzles of off-kilter psych and lashings of garage-pop melodicism -- all informed by an attitude combining cryptic social digs, bone-dry wit and Dadaist pranksterism. Anthology Recordings (a one-time digital retailer of rare/collectible music) declared that The Prefab Messiahs "manage to perfectly execute the difficult joining of punk, psych, and garage." Some have waxed less analytically, too: in psych-legend Bobb Trimble's song 'Armour of the Shroud', he wrote 'Well the Rolling Stones come to town / don't throw the Prefab Messiahs out of bounds / God save those dreamers / they're all that's left sometimes."

The handsome 7" package features art & layout from Prefabs singer Xeth "Xerox" Feinberg and band photos by the aforementioned Mr. Trimble (the band's friend, guru, and sometime producer).

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released January 18, 2011

Xerox Feinberg - gtr, voc, 7" cover art/layout
Doc Michaud - gtr, spoken intro (on "Franz Kafka")
Trip Thompson - bass, back voc ("Prefab Sun")
Billy Brahm - drums on "Franz Kafka"
Tony Serrato - drums on "Prefab Sun"
Thom Moore - live sound on "Franz Kafka"
Jeff Lipton - 1998 restoration & mastering
Joe Turner - 2010 additional engineering
Kris Thompson - project & mastering supervision
Bobb Trimble - guru, 7" cover photo
Harry Howes - label honcho

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Micro-legendary DIY Garage-Pop-Psych provocateurs! Evolutionary genre grinders practicing art-damaged power pop, rock, crunch, jangle and general mynd-massage.

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