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prinzhorn dance school

A very quick Vulture take on Prinzhorn Dance School — a band I find pretty endlessly fascinating — and their new album,Clay Class.

I’m pretty sure I could spend 10,000 words circling and trying to pin down the things I hear in this band; they make music in a totally lateral, unexpected way, which winds up creating all sorts of strange and hard-to-describe effects when you spend enough time listening to it. Lateral by design, both as an agenda (Hans Prinzhorn, the German psychiatrist they named themselves after, studied artwork by the mentally ill), and as a working method (they allegedly write their songs by arguing over graphs and diagrams).

If you missed their 2007 self-titled debut, I recommend it highly.