A thread for Natalie Prass

As a piano player and music lover, the pfogrsssion In hot for the mountain rules me

Some of the backing vocals bring to mind deradoorian and Coffman from dirty projectors

I sort of can't believe that it's mostly the same group of folks behind this record and the debut.

i love this album

round and round
had ups and downs

the progresssion In hot for the mountain rules me

Yeah this stood out for me too - liking this album a lot on first listen

This album is so good

Sisters tho sucks

Disagree, re sisters. This is one of the three best albums I've heard all year. And this is a very good year.

This is very good. The "Your Fire"/"The Fire"/"Hot…" section is a bit ho hum, but the rest is, um, fire. Will probably buy.

Lost is so gorgeous

Only song I’ve heard from her is the one that sounded like Disney (think it was the final song on her debut?)

Yup, and I said as much as the time. I'll get around to this but something about her's always been a bit offputting, somehow.

That's baffling to me. There's a huge change in style between the debut and the new one, but I can't for the life of me imagine how one would find any of her music offputting. Ymmv though obv.

To clarify: I am allergic to everything remotely Disney, am just not getting it from her.

i've heard a lot of ppl compare the first album to disney soundtracks

Madness.

She's wearing her influences on her sleeve on her debut: Joni, Mary Margaret O'Hara, symphonic film score music as a background. Sure. But the latter doesn't always equate to "Disney", people.

I only heard it specifically in that last track but it was definitely the association I made on a cold first listen, having not heard anything else by her/about her before listening to the album as a whole.

Last track wouldn't have raised any eyebrows on the Lalaland soundtrack, in context of the album it's not as idiosyncratic imo, but I get you'd get this Disney feeling now.

anyway it doesn't carry through to the new album at all ned

Yeah, new one is like it's by someone else entirely.

Which does intrigue!

Yeah I love this record and I didn’t care for that Disney esque track - felt like just another Josephine foster devendra freak folk thing

whoa this is different from her first one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnux4JLY0Eo

really like the video for 'the fire'

album is still one of my favourites this year

yep, I still play it a lot even with the deluge of great new albums

It's easily in my top 3 of the year

Saw her last night, really really great show. Don't miss this tour, please.

http://vancouverweekly.com/natalie-prass-on-trying-to-stay-hopeful-in-troubling-times-61689-2/

I got to interview her! I'm new to music journalism, so that was pretty exciting.

oh very cool josh

album definitely in my top 10

great piece Josh!

Thank you!

I’m actually at her Vancouver concert now, any ilx users here? She’s not on for another hour but it’s still heartbreaking how few ppl there are here

kinda crazy that you can release critically acclaimed albums and have a label doing promo and everything and still not necessarily fill small venues

my brother once saw Clipse, just slightly past their prime, play a Danish club in front of an audience of about 20 people

picked up this record for the first time in months and i can't believe it exists, what a rush <3

brad you're getting an EOY list ready aren't you

who can say

also imo i should not be getting a year-end list ready bc it's still october but for some reason websites are beholden to magazine publishing schedules

rigging up the brad signal

https://www.stereogum.com/2027828/natalie-prass-prefab-sprout-wild-horses/video/

oh my god

She really nails it with that live version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUbMT0T2rIc

"Oh My", 1:35 in, the cadence of "Seems like everyday we're losing..." is bringing up another song, but I'm stumped. Thinking Prince or some current synthpop band, and near resigned to just stumbling across it in the future. Any ideas?

nice performance on corden:

https://youtu.be/Z2oZDu-V-v8

That's great! She should be a huge star right now.

I keep going back to that Sprout cover. Such a gorgeous version.

more fun: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22/697010742/natalie-prass-tiny-desk-concert

awesome to know that Hot For The Mountain is her favorite, as it's my favorite too.