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Limited Seating. First Come, First Served. Were a weird band, states Princess Goes drummer Peter Yanowitz. Hes not wrong. But weird like David Bowie, Bjork and Brian Wilsons Smile might be termed weird. In other words: unconventional and quite possibly irresistible. Princess Goes second full-length album, the 12- song Come of Age, is the trios most accessible work to date, yet its still chock-full of innovative songs that traverse a thrilling and often surprising sonic and lyrical landscape. The first single, Shimmer, highlights Michael C. Halls powerful, ethereal vocals atop quietly propulsive rhythm lines, and features Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) as guest guitarist. Shimmers equally stunning and expansive video was directed by Tim Richardson (Elton John, Billie Eilish, Givenchy). Take Me Home serves up a soaring emotive trippiness that morphs into headbanging moments worthy of the heaviest metaller or your favorite Zeppelin album, while the haunting Jetpack showcase Halls poignant lyrics and penetrative voice, at once bell-clear and diaphanous, as the song builds to a wild and harrowing conclusion. The groups evolution is ongoing and often unearthly, spacy and provocative in the vein of Bowies Blackstar. (Hall played Thomas Newton in the original New York cast of Bowies off- Broadway musical swan song, Lazarus.) I think the vibe of the latter third of Come of Age, goes to a place thats a little more expansive or hopeful or mystically minded, Hall says. Though I suppose it starts on that note too. You want some things to have a musical unfolding and flow, but you also want some sort of evolution that makes sense lyrically. I think we managed to do both those things with the sequence. And for newbies to the Princess Goes sphere, fair warning: If anyone goes to a PG show to see the guy from TV, once Hall is onstage singing, he says, that actually sort of takes care of itself. If people have some sort of preconception, its pushed aside once were up there doing our thing. Its not unique to this band, Hall says. I go to dinner, and people are like, Hey, youre that guy!? And Im like, Im not actually that guy. Its just another version of Im not that guy. Although Come of Age is the groups second full-length album, Princess Goes are as excited as first-timers. Until now weve been gestating in this small world, being in our own cocoon and working the last bunch of years, says Yanowitz. I feel like this group of songs and this sort of statement that we wanted to put out with Come of Age tied in nicely to that. It also felt like we kind of graduated out of that scene the three of had created, and maybe wherever we go next is to the wider world. The making of Come of Age felt like a bookend to the way we were working, a stepping-off point for something new.

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