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ANTI- Records is pleased to announce the upcoming release of Mamba, the sophomore album from South Africa-bred artist Prism Tats. Due out March 2, Mamba offers a moody but melody-driven strain of psych-inflected post-punk.
Recorded with producer Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall), Mamba explores themes of self-inflicted isolation, working-class hopelessness, and the emotional damage of technology addiction. Most of these new songs came from taking in whats going on in the world today, and being afraid of the future were headed toward, notes Garett van der Spek, the L.A.-based singer/songwriter behind Prism Tats.
With its sonic complexity and understated emotional depth, Mamba has a double meaning to its title. Its the name of a venomous snake, and in my hometown its a slang term for the biggest or meanest of something, van der Spek points out.
As he explains, the word mamba ultimately embodies the sense of fear and defiance threaded throughout the record and especially evident in its epic title track. The song is partly about letting go of that fear, says van der Spek. When I say Give me the mamba, I mean Give me the whole experience: the good and the bad and everything else that might exist in between.
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