Female-fronted rock group from
Philadelphia, Prima Donna, has released their first full-length
record since 2003's widely acclaimed “Not Having Fun.
Female-fronted rock group from
Philadelphia, Prima Donna, has released their first full-length
record since 2003's widely acclaimed “Not Having Fun.” The album
is a grooving, rocking return to the best principles of early-80s pop
rock and roll, raw without sounding crass, precise without sounding
pretentious, and expertly executed without losing the purity of its
garage sound.
Right out of the package, Prima Donna
will remind music fans of a time when songwriting meant more than
packing as much sound as one could engineer into forty, fifty, or
two-hundred guitar tracks on a DAT tape. The vocals feel earnest and
American, like the laid-back intensity of Heart or Fleetwood Mac, and
never sound strained or contrived. Lead vocalist Debbie and twin
singer/guitarists Gina and Tina are often reminiscent of the
Runaways' best moments, or of the Pretenders.
Prima Donna's guitar work is one of the
group's best features. With its warm Marshall tone and classic,
unhurried rhythm, it ends up somewhere between the melodies of the
Cars and the bar chords of the Replacements: nothing but frank,
unabashed rock and roll polished to a high shine and belted out.
Leads are present, but not ever-present, and never lapse into
mindless noodling. The plain muscle and passion behind the
songwriting exhibits the exquisite taste of its composers, as well as
that of its performers.
The bass and drums are perhaps the
group's secret weapon, however. Subtle in their display and
surgically clean in their playing, bassist Steve and drummer Dave are
more than a mere backbone, more than a solid backdrop – as a
backbone they're like the steel skeleton of a New York skyscraper; as
a backdrop, they're like fireworks in the sky. Bass and drums
haven't sounded this good together since Joe Jackson. They probably
won't be the first thing you notice, but that's how they work:
they're ninjas of pop.
It's taken a long time for Prima Donna
to bring rock and roll of this caliber home, but rock
owes them a debt of gratitude for getting around to it at last.
Their new record “Restored” is absolutely deserving of an
afternoon's listen on repeat,
so by all means, put on a black leather jacket and enjoy it.
-Sean McCauley
MondoTunes Staff Writer
The LP “Restored” is
distributed globally by MondoTunes (www.MondoTunes.com)
and is available at iTunes for convenient purchase and download
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http://www.Primadonnamusic.com
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