Last time we caught up with The Prefab Messiahs, the Massachusetts pop trippers were rallying against Donald Trump and this modern age of unforgivable insanity with the single-video one-two punch of “The Man Who Killed Reality”. Today (January 26), as they release their new record Psychsploitation Today via Lolipop/Burger Records, they’re taking matters “Outtayerhands” and back into their own world of animated, but not agitated, garage punk.
The new track is augmented by another colorful visual, and you can physically pull open your screen dimensions and dive into it below.
“[It’s] is a warped prefab Zen meditation on the limits of directly affecting the wider world: The ‘stupid monkey’ behavior of the rich and powerful, the pointlessness of trying to effect change by ‘picking crumbs out of the carpet.’ So much of what is going on is ‘outta yer hands’ — it can drive you crazy,” says chief Prefab pontificator Xerox Feinberg, who is also the talent and mind behind the video.
He adds: “Sonically, the song is a buzzing 21st Century ode to raging Kinksian garage-pop (maybe with a bit of wannabe Serge Gainsbourg thrown in?). In keeping with the whole theme of our Psychsploitation Today album, it sounds like what we feel. Finally, the animated video proudly wallows in mid-’60s Dadaist Anglophilia, featuring an alternative universe of senseless secret agent action.”
As you gaze into the abyss, take a breath at some point today for embrace The Prefab Messiahs new record, which hit streaming platforms as the sun rose up on New England. It’s also available for purchase on cassette, on compact disc, and that time-honored digital format. Catch a stream below via Spotify.