Name: Friends For Now
Brand: Young Prisms

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

KR288LPC1

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Colour

Purple

Colour details

Purple Translucent

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

10 Year Anniversary Edition.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

0827175028819

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / purple

Artist

Young Prisms

Genre GB

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label GB

Kanine

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As an influential force within the industry, Kanine's releases have garnered critical acclaim and commercial success. Distributed by [l2801879], they have expanded their reach globally, allowing fans from all corners of the world to enjoy their impressive catalog of music.

Young Prisms are a San Francisco based psychedelic shoegaze band formed by life-long friends Matt Allen and Giovanni Betteo along with Betteo's partner Stefanie Hodapp and Brooklyn based drummer Jordan Silbert. After a debut EP on the buzzy Mexican Summer records in 2009, Young Prisms released two LP's on Kanine Records (Friends For Now 2011, In Between 2012) along with various limited edition 7" and cassette singles. After an eight year hiatus, Young Prisms are slated to release their third LP in 2021.

Their music is characterized by dreamy guitar textures, hazy vocals, and swirling melodies that transport listeners into a mesmerizing sonic landscape. Drawing inspiration from bands like No Joy, Tamaryn, Ringo Deathstarr, and Pinkshinyultrablast among others*, Young Prisms have carved out their own unique sound within the genre of psychedelic shoegaze.

With their previous releases receiving critical acclaim for their ethereal atmospheres and captivating songwriting, fans eagerly anticipate the upcoming album from *Young Prisms*. Stay tuned for more mind-bending tunes as they continue to push the boundaries of psychedelic shoegaze music.

Young Prisms emerged in the early 2000’s from the Bay Area of San Francisco out of the warehouse district by putting out various tapes, 7”s as well as a 12” EP on Mexican Summer. Soon after in 2010 Kanine Records met up with them and worked on two classic shoegaze albums with the band. These two albums were limitedly released on vinyl and quickly sold out to shoegaze fans. Now 10 Years later Kanine celebrate how great they were with two re-issues. New and old shoegaze fans will love these classic songs. 

Like many artists before them, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Girls, it is here in San Francisco that these five younglings that comprise the band, Young Prisms, Jason Hendardy, Jordan Silbert, Matt Allen, Stef Hodapp, and Gio Betteo. The band came together in a roach infested apt above a chinese restaurant in order to explore a true artist livelihood. leaving all of their academic institutions behind, the band started pumping out dark, driving rhythms overlaid with melodies that pulse and build and then break over you. it was here, out of this small dwelling, where they all shared a living, practicing, and recording space that the inspiration for their debut album bringing out comparisons to 90's favourites My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Slowdive, and Deerhunter.

Friends For Now

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