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Their performances were often unpredictable and tempestuous, with the two vocalists - Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard - engaging in both verbal and physical battles on stage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProlapse's sound can be likened to artists such as Quickspace, Moonshake, Long Fin Killie, Urusei Yatsura, Bitch Magnet, Disco Inferno, Dog Faced Hermans, Come, Polvo,Flying Saucer Attack,Band Of Susans ,Brainiac,Jessamine ,Supreme Dicks ,The Fall ,The Wedding Present ,The Ex,Movietone,Six by Seven,and JUNE OF 44.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite originating from an English sleaze-rock backwater like Leicester during a seemingly unfavorable time for their genre,Prolapse managed to inject new life into post-noise pop through their energetic performances and unique blend of humor. 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Completely remastered under band supervision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining a metronomic krautrock beat played by a monster drummer, looping guitars and a boy\/girl vocal that sounded like a bickering bed-sit argument turned into song, Prolapse had all the manic intensity of a nervous breakdown set against a backdrop of inventive guitar work and a really tough rhythm section. There were hints of the Fall, krautrock, PiL and a touch of the pure golden pop of Blondie along with the sense of restless dislocation shared by many of the post-punk bands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProlapse arrived in the middle of the Britpop era and their tense, almost neurotic music clashed with the stadium-filling, jolly knees- up pop that dominated the indie mainstream of the time. By 1996 indie had become the mainstream in terms of record sales and sound and was strutting around at the opposite end of the cultural spectrum to the indie bands of the Eighties and their war against popular culture. 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They feature vocalists Mick Derrick and Linda Steelyard, whose intense duelling vocals combine with ferocious triple guitar assault and pummelling rhythms.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe fifth Prolapse album \u003cem\u003eI Wonder When They’re Going to Destroy Your Face?\u003c\/em\u003e is released on Tapete Records and marks the bands first new recordings since their last album, \u003cem\u003eGhosts of Dead Aeroplanes\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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”.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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. 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