London’s PROM debut brooding new stomper ‘I’ll Teach You”

16 October 2015, 10:45 | Written by Yasmyn Charles

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PROM are nails down a blackboard. The kind of sound that on memory would have you shifting in your sleep. They’re caustic and cutting.

Sardonic and scathing, the group have an agenda for discordance that they strive to make starkly evident. To call their output surf rock is too simplistic; that aspect is warped into waves of fervid sound by the group's unrestrained and perverse aggression.

Each drum beat is a militaristic call to arms. Each screech of guitar a war call. The London-dwelling four piece are purveyors of stirring sludge-punk that’s as instant and raw as a blow to the head.

“I’ll teach you how to play” is an invitation spat with venom. It’s as enticing as it is menacing. Frontwoman Angela Won-Yin Mak bluntly states – “The vocals are ugly”.

A "rolling juggernaut of machine music" (the band's own words), "I'll Teach You" is self-released as a 7" double A-side with "Teach Me" on 23 October. Available for pre-order now.