Blog: A New Prolapse Album

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Last Friday was a very exciting day round our way, for LO! it was release day for the first Prolapse album in TWENTY SIX years!!

As regular viewers will hopefully be aware, our very own Mr T Pattison is very much the DRUMMER in the aforesaid Prolapse, and so me and the rest of the Vlads have been kept up to date with the progress of this new album for the past DECADE during which it has been put together. Also I have been an ACTUAL FAN of Prolapse since I first saw them, 300,000 years ago in (I think) The Mud Club in Leicester, after Tim and Geordie Mick had gone round The Mag over the road loudly saying "I Hear There Is A Very Good Band Playing Later", "Yes, That Is Also What I Hear Also".

(NB I am anticipating Tim claiming this did not happen: IT TOTALLY DID)

Come Fridy I was waiting for Mr Postman to bring me a copy, but mid-afternoon I checked and realised I got slightly confused and had bought tickets for their London gig in October, but had not the pre-ordered the album itself. Happily I was in town that day so I was able to wander down to London's Fashionable Soho Area Of London - specifically to the cover of What's The Story Morning Glory - to try and buy it THERE.

It has been a while since I was last in an Actual Record Shop, during which time they appear to have been made EVEN MORE CONFUSING. In the end I had to go and ask for it at the counter, much as I had done back in Medieval Tymes when I went into Ainley's Records to buy their first DEMO TAPE. "You're lucky", said the bloke, "it's the last one we've got!" I assume this means it is going to be in the TOP TEN by the end of the week!



I posted the above picture of my purchase to The Validators' WhatsApp group (yes, we have a WhatsApp group because we are DEAD MODERN) to prove all of the above and then scurried home to listen to it. Last year Tim had played us the intro to "On The Quarter Days" because he was trying to work out something to do with The Mastering, and I fear I LAUGHED OPENLY with DELIGHT to hear it because it sounded EXACTLY what I wanted a Prolapse single to sound like. I am very happy to report that the ENTIRE ALBUM is like that, and I again LARFED several times at how it is EXACTLY what anybody who likes Prolapse would be after i.e. a BLOODY RACKET of RIFFS and SHOUTING and SINGING and MORE RIFFS.

To my everlasting joy they have even done one of those EXPERIMENTAL SOUND POEMS like what they always used to. When I first heard this track on Gideon Coe I thought "Amazing! There's even one that I will always skip, as is correct!" It was, perhaps, not the most Emotionally Intelligent thing I have ever done to tell Tim this, but still it is part of the whole make up of a record which is RUDDY BRILLIANT. I am now very much looking forward to seeing them again in a few weeks and - GASP - even excited to hear The New Material, which is not something I ever expected to be able to say. My only concern is that it's part of a week long tour containing SIX gigs in SEVEN days - flipping heck! There's a lot of PHYSICAL EXERCISE involved in making that much bloody racket, I hope they're all going to be OK!

posted 31/8/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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