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• Artist: The People's Revolutionary Choir
• Single:
Do You Feel Like I Do?
• Label: Weekender Records
• Year of Release: 2007
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• Reviewed by: mschmitt on 2007-11-26

Though nowhere near choir-numbers (though closer than most) with six members and not really anything revolutionary (unusual would be better), The People’s Revolutionary Choir build off of their success with their “The Breeze That Blows” / “Lost and Found” single release with Do You Feel Like I Do? Put together in 2001 and built by brothers Jim and Lal Townsend (guitar and vocals, respectively) from “waifs and strays” in a half-way house dubbed “171,” The People’s Revolutionary Choir gained the attention of Jim Reid and Ben Lurie of Jesus and Mary Chain, who assisted PRC by producing some of the band’s earlier demos.  Not surprisingly then, “Do You Feel Like I Do?” is spacey and full of massive sonic landscapes—in essence, straight out of Psychocandy (although without the link, I would group them more with Catherine Wheel). Lal Townsend’s vocals sound a bit like Youth Group’s Toby Martin alongside the pysch-rock instrumentals, an interesting blend that helps separate PRC from their early mentors.  Meanwhile, the B-side track “Painkiller Blues” sounds exactly like what you’d expect from the title: a slower, acoustic melody full of backwater sorrows. Despite the song’s intro taking up half the track without really going anywhere, “Painkiller Blues” eventually evolving into more of a Youth Group track than anything, mainly due to the remarkable similarity between Townsend and Martin. All in all, The People’s Revolutionary Choir hardly have hit upon some pop phenomenon with Do You Feel Like I Do? (although I wouldn’t be surprised if I had to eat those words), but they add more credibility to an already growing list of decent singles.

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