“Prairie Dance Club†is a blend of alt country Canadiana with heavy sonic undertones. The band was formed in the fall of 2007 in their hometown of Vancouver, B.C.. They have just recently released their first full length album which has so far generated attention locally and abroad. You can expect this band to draw you in with timeless melody and a soundscape as big as the prairie sky.
Latest Reviews
..."Prairie Dance Club’s lush eponymous debut is a perfect example of what I’m talking about … but with the twist that the influences are really not so obvious. This excellent new Vancouver band manages to mask them well. You might care to guess at any number of artists from Ryan Adams to Bread, Neil Young to Crowded House, Great Lake Swimmers to Eagles, but in every instance you could be well off course. While it’s valid to say there are little flourishes present of all these suggested reference points, PDC does not overall sound like any of them. What they’ve achieved in a most auspicious manner, however, is the elusive familiarity of melody of which I speak. The listener is immediately sucked in to remain somewhere really comfortable for the album’s frustratingly fleeting 37 minutes. Each song in turn prompts a grope around in its dreamy sonic landscape for the classic it might be modelled on, but really, why bother when it’s such a rewarding experience in itself?"
..."The mood of this gorgeous album is pretty much established from the off with the loping opener "The Builder". Acoustic guitars, gentle head-nodding beats and Jason Davies’ yearning, rasp-edged vocal are underpinned by washes of Carl Tingstad’s luxuriant keyboards to offer a simple and truly beautiful, melancholy pop sound".....
... "You’ll have gathered I’m rather fond of this CD. It has beguiling, insidious qualities that hold me entranced. If this band can do that to me after exposure to roughly a billion albums in my lifetime within the music industry, it’s a dead cert they can do it to you and, if there’s any justice, millions more"
-David Morrison
(CHLY / Fascinating Rhythm)