Emerging: PRATIQUE

I’ve thought this through all day and am now officially okay standing by it.  I’m getting up on my soapbox here and blaring loudly "DJs make amazing musicians".  And maybe, once the hush that has befallen my readers subsides and after they’ve heard this track from New York City’s very own PRATIQUE, it won’t be such a big deal for a rockist critic like that dude jeff to have uttered that phrase.  Maybe.

The skinny on PRATIQUE is that it’s helmed by DJ Jess (Marquis), who’s more than well-known for his DJ sets for pretty much every worth-going-to Nightworld spot.  I mean, you can’t pick up a single mass produced handbill these days in downtown without seeing his name somewhere.  Word.

But that’s all fine and dandy because the real story here is the REST OF THE GROUP.  You can’t really ride on the coattails of your lead singer anymore (as you can probably see by how quickly the star fades from bands that do just that these days) and PRATIQUE honor this notion.

With bigger-than-Jesus soaring guitars that instantly bring you back to your love of Placebo to the crisp, sharpened like a knife bass lines that should make Kim Deal watch her back, PRATIQUE not only harness their influences whole-heartedly but also spin-off of them into somewhat new territory.  The high-pitched power-pop leanings of Jess’s voice are much less annoying then his dancepunk contemporaries like Luke Jenner from The Rapture and lyrically, you can’t help but notice his love affair with Mr. Emotional himself, Morrissey.  And stickman Dennis Lehrer could well find himself being asked to fill in for the likes of Bloc Party if Matt Tong collapses another lung.

And to top all of this fanboy-ing off, these guys haven’t even been together for a year!  Sheesh.  Next up for PRATIQUE is opening for Burning Brides on September 15 at Europa.

(mp3)    PRATIQUE – Death For Blushing Rogue

Godspeed!