Prayer For Animals

It began with all-night jams in early 2005 with everyone throwing in styles they were used to playing or hearing. Eventually those influences merged and mutated and became the conglomerated sound of Prayer For Animals, (a name that references a tacky children’s book left at our original practice space.) So Neil Young and Pink Floyd joined Sonic Youth and Radiohead. The past met the present and eventually the gaps were filled-in and the sound was there, an intense but never pretentious blend of our favorite sub-sections of rock and roll: Psych, Surf, Alt-Country, Space. But of the one constant throughout was the originator of it all, The Blues. At first, we were a four-piece which rotated on stage as to free up one of us to drum or sing. Once a full-time drummer joined in 2007, everyone stayed put onstage and neither of the two lead vocalists had to also drum while singing. This also freed-up guitarists Adam Brisbin and John Pitts to design the kind of classic rock dual-guitar magic that we all loved, like the Allman Brothers, or Crazy Horse. Over the past couple of years, we have also begun to reference bands as diverse as Television, Spiritualized, The Band, and Pavement. The instruments used are the pure sounds of rock and roll, with warm wurlitzer electric piano and hammand organ, bumping into rolling rickenbacker bass, galloping-steed drums and slide guitar, all coming together to exorcise the commercially-watered down demons of decent music-loving humans everywhere. The songs deal with death, pain, confusion, insanity, psychic TVs, air conditioners, kitchens, brains, beds, bees, and dreams.