This month marks the release of psychedelic iconoclasts The Prefab Messiahs' Peace Love & Alienation, a collection of the band's early recordings from 1982-1983. Following album cut "Beyond All That," the quartet offers "Desperately Happy," a punchy, chromatic garage pop tune that is full of social commentary by turns tongue-and-cheek and sincere. "Don't sing their harmony," Singer Xeth Feinberg cautions --"they" being the monolith of suits that apparently populated Worcester, Mass. in the early '80s. He also extols polyester as the counterculture textile of choice. -- Dale W. Eisinger & Emilie Friedlander, Altered Zones
MP3: The Prefab Messiahs: "Desperately Happy"
Peace Love & Alienation is out November 15 on Fixed Identity
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