{"id":14599,"date":"2018-01-25T03:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T03:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blanktv.com\/videos\/the-prids-mangled-this-a-way-records\/"},"modified":"2019-03-19T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T14:36:05","slug":"the-prids-mangled-this-a-way-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blanktv.com\/videos\/the-prids-mangled-this-a-way-records\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prids – “Mangled” This-a-Way Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Prids – “Mangled” This-a-Way Records – Official Music Video<\/p>\n

Artist city, country: Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.<\/p>\n

Artist Biography: ‘Do I Look Like I\u2019m in Love?’, the new full-length from The Prids, illustrates the Portland dark pop band\u2019s mettle through keen lyrical observations, but also in its attention to sonic detail and song craft\u2014this record couldn\u2019t have been made by any other band at any other time.
\nThe fact that there\u2019s even a new Prids record is a miracle. In March of 2015 bassist-vocalist Mistina La Fave suffered a brain hemorrhage the night before the band was scheduled to enter the studio. The recovery was physically and mentally taxing, and La Fave is lucky to be alive, let alone playing and performing again. The Prids\u2019 22 years have been marked with death, sickness, divorce, and a near-fatal van crash that cut a tour short and left members bloody and broken\u2014but they survive through the friendship and bond of founding members La Fave and guitarist-vocalist David Frederickson. While those events have invariably made their way into the band\u2019s narrative, the two simply chalk it up to life.
\nThey met in La Fave\u2019s small hometown of Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1995, not long after Frederickson had moved there from Southern California. They started a relationship (they divorced in 2001, not long after they married), formed The Prids, and moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, before settling in Portland, Oregon, in 1999. In that time they\u2019ve released four full-lengths and a trail of EPs, toured all over the world, while gaining the respect of bands throughout Portland for their tenacity and longevity (The Prids are one of the longest-running active bands in the city). They continue to make music for the right reasons\u2014with or without a label, for themselves. A few years ago they brought in drummer Gordon Nickel and multi-instrumentalist Tim Yates, their sturdiest lineup to date. These four individuals are what make ‘Do I Look Like I\u2019m in Love?’ such a special record.
\nThroughout it all The Prids have remained completely DIY (the band even launched its own label\/artist collective This-a-Way Records in 1996). Their videos and album art are as brilliantly conceived as the music itself. And in 2017 the Prids are playing with the same ardor they did 20 years ago. They say what doesn\u2019t kill you makes you stronger, and this band is the embodiment of that.<\/p>\n

Director Name: Tim Yates <\/p>\n

About the Video: From a cancelled 8-bit platform game, The Prids must be freed from their evil sadness, which has turned them into monstrous bosses of a surreal land. Your protagonist is randomly generated during the opening menu sequence: a nameless and gender-neutral every-person (they wear a shirt featuring the non-binary flag for most of the video). Your choices for how to defeat the various baddies are always non-violent, from simply sprinting to offering up vegan tacos. Some of the enemies also behave in ways inspired by the struggles of LGBTQ people; one-eyed pyramid creatures representing harmful religious doctrine, and knights of solid stone with scrolls symbolizing unjust and rigid legislation, for example. Watch it a few times to see if you can catch all the Easter eggs<\/p>\n

Artist Website: http:\/\/www.theprids.com<\/a>
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\nInstagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/_prids\/?hl=en<\/a><\/p>\n

Label Name: This-a-Way Records
\nLabel Website: http:\/\/www.thisawayrecords.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Song Lyrics: “Mangled”<\/p>\n

Mangled hearts created by a tongue that didn’t mean it
\nNotes swell from hands misleading
\nTime jerks and crashes you into
\nThe place to go
\nWhere no one knows
\nIt’s you who’s killing me<\/p>\n

Smart girls getting faded
\nBroken vow and England’s shaken
\nSugarpills might fuel this lifeline
\nBut that dulled ache still takes you to the place I’ll be
\nWhere no one sees it’s you who rests in me <\/p>\n

Mangled hearts can’t break
\nThe damage done, saves<\/p>\n

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