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Dinked : Red Vinyl LP / Red Vinyl 7” with Outtake “Swearing For Decoration” & “Ectoplasm Untied (A Faust Remix)” / Numbered Sleeve / Limited Pressing of 500 SOLD OUT
LP : Standard Black Vinyl
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Prolapse formed in Leicester in the early 90s and are now spread across the UK and Scandinavia. Still pursuing their own path of repetition and twisted melodies, they merge influences from post punk to krautrock and even folk. Their previous releases have included numerous singles and four albums on various labels, including Cherry Red and Radar. They feature vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, whose intense duelling vocals combine with ferocious triple guitar assault and pummelling rhythms.
The fifth Prolapse album “I Wonder When They’re Going to Destroy Your Face?” will be released on Tapete Records and marks the band’s first new recordings since their last album, “Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes”, released 26 years ago, but in some ways it feels like there hasn’t a break at all. From the opening incessant riff of ”The Fall of Cashline”, Prolapse set their stall out, hammering the message that they’re back, over and over (and over and over) again. The album cover is a photo of a broken mirror the band discovered in a skip in South London whilst on tour. If you look closely, you can make out blurred images of the vocalists staring into it.
The first new sound to be heard from Prolapse this millennium, the opening beer can of ”On The Quarter Days“, the return single, perhaps gives an insight into the short, sharp, creative sessions that produced this album. Despite the elapsed 10 years of reformation Prolapse, now actually longer than they existed in the 90s, the time together has been all too brief, gigs every couple of years, writing sessions even rarer.
The album was mainly written in Leicester and recorded at Foel Studio in Wales. Some songs had been evolving for a few years whilst others (three on the album) were improvised and recorded on the spot, just like they’ve always done. Get ready, turn the microphones on, press record…. and something just happens. Perhaps channeling some of the ghosts that have previously recorded at Foel: Amon Düül II, the Groundhogs, Young Marble Giants, My Bloody Valentine and inevitably The Fall.
“Err on the Side of Dead” is one of these songs; it grinds and gnaws away, gradually changing until Linda eventually yells “I hate, I hate, I hate”. The supernatural appears again, with “Ghost in the Chair”, perhaps the album’s stand out track, not exactly like the Prolapse you know, but very much the Prolapse you want to come back to now. It starts off sleepy and eerie, as a kind of displaced therapy session between Mick and Linda, before developing into a wash of noise near the end.
The second single ”Cha Cha Cha 2000”, brings Prolapse into a more dare we say ‘jaunty’ sphere, with Mick recounting a dreamlike escapade with Canned Heat, Donovan and Cat Stevens, not regular touchstones in the 90s, but time brings a new perspectives. “Ectoplasm United” is a messy but melodic maelstrom, which has also recently had a Faust remix (this will be available on a separate 7 inch single with the vinyl release of the album on Tapete Records).
The last words of the album are said by Linda Steelyard, recounting a tale of arriving at Leicester Forest East Services, and deciding to stay….forever.
Tracklist
Side A
The Fall Of Cashline
Cha Cha Cha 2000
Err On The Side Of Dead
Ghost In The Chair
Side B
On The Quarter Days
Cacophany No. C
Jackdaw
Ectoplasm United
A Forever
Side C (7") Dinked Edition Only)
Swearing For Decoration
Side D (7") (Dinked Edition Only)
Ectoplasm Untied (A Faust Remix)
Customer Reviews
The great Prolapse return after 26 years with no punches pulled. A great maelstrom of a record, like a harmonic convergence of two colliding stars.
Prolapse - I Wonder When They’re Going To Destroy Your Face (plus 7“)
2025 / Tapete Records
Prolapse from Leicester have always been different, different from the stuff that was hyped and praised in Melody Maker or NME. They had energy, power and were weird and crazy, well, and when their last album was in 1999 and now in 2025 they’re back with a new one, you might be afraid...
No! You don’t have to! Three guitars take you on a rollercoaster ride, an endless session with a lot of noise, the drums pound tirelessly and Linda and Mick continue to engage in verbal battles at their finest. However, if you’re hoping for pop anthems or sweet banter, you won’t find them here. The beauty of this album is that it doesn’t totally blow you away the first time you hear it, but you don’t get tired of it after the third time either – on the contrary! There’s more and more to notice, and these endless loops have more variety than you realise when you first hear them.
But hey, they’ve also scored a real hit for me, the track on the bonus single ‘Swearing For Decoration’ is on constant repeat here. What else can I say, I love this band! ...and hope that we might actually cross paths again sometime.
