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Prinzhorn Dance School discuss forthcoming album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 2 November 2011
Post-punk pairing Prinzhorn Dance School have spoken at some length about their forthcoming second album, ‘Clay Class’, which is scheduled for release by DFA Records on 30 Jan 2012.
While their eponymous debut was often defined by its sparseness and severity, the duo say they have incorporated “some colour and some tenderness” into the sound of their second LP. “If you’re going to face up to really difficult underlying themes, sometimes the best way to do that is to let a bit of optimism in there”, says co-vocalist Tobin Prinz.
He adds that the album seeks to excavate “empty spaces”, both in Britain’s physical landscape of “fields; lakes; warehouses; the sea; huge, people-less car-parks” and in terms of “the gaps in our music itself”. This, he says, will magnify a sense of ‘not belonging’ with which he feels “millions of people in this country” can identify.
