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	TBA "They came into our home. I didn't know if they were moving in or taking over. They didn't look like true scruffers but they had certainly been a long time at sea or the tracks or someplace the same." Bill Steckel recalls his first near encounter with King of Prussia with a near dumbfounded look penciled upon his face--as if someone had just asked him to explain the concept of infinity. The Prush boys would try their hands at such perpetuity from time to time again on the post-fabricated porch attached to the front of The Chapel. That's where they all hang. We're told that it was built in 1888 and later converted into a home of sorts, at which point it was moved out towards the 10 Loop. At any given point on any given day between the hours of three o'clock p.m. and 03:00 you are likely to hear any number of musical numbers escaping through the windows and wide open doors of The Chapel. That's what the members of King of Prussia do. Peter Alvanos, Taylor Coggin, Katie Griffin, Brian Hall, Brandon Hanick, Elizabeth Jones, Trey McManus, A.J. Rownd, Brian Smith, and Nathan Troutman contributed to King of Prussia?s first album, Save the Scene, and a plurality performs in the live endeavor. While a quick assessment of King of Prussia's new album, Save the Scene, might bring to mind a more grandiose Smiths or poppier Flaming Lips, the band's deftly-designed lyrics--which speak of home as place, home as state, consumerism, summertime, etc.--place the band closer to the Steely Dans and Magnetic Fields' of the world. The world, incidentally, is where the album was recorded all around'.if all around the world then at least all around the two-state region that many call, "The Florida-Georgia Region." Attempting to unify the once warring-universes, Hanick began production of Save the Scene in the closet of his father's apartment in Largo, Fl before making the trek back to Georgia. Playing to click tracks, he crudely/eloquently put the initial acoustic guitar/scratch vocals down on what would become his trusty, portable studio--a Boss BR-1180. On to Atlanta, Hanick was able to convince Brian Hall (ex-Beijing/Touchdown!) to sneak them in to Georgia State University's practice rooms, high above the city. The mission went off without a hitch and allowed them to do something they hadn't done in previous bands?record live piano. It was a big deal to them and, after much rejoicing, Hanick bid his farewell to Hall and headed back to Athens to get down to the truly time-intensive recording with Trey McManus, proclaimed by all to be the "King of Small Format Recordings." Some may call it a bedroom recording. But very few would agree that it sounds like a bedroom recording. In fact, Save the Scene was recorded at Hanick's home, in Trey's bedroom, at The Chapel and in the liquor storage closet at local discotheque, The Go Bar. McManus and Hanick danced around the rooms and brought people into the warmth of their reverb-laden embrace in order to bring the listener an album that creates its own tangents, references, dimensions. King of Prussia, while on stage, tend to vacillate between the unruly and the subdued, engrossing the audience and bringing back thoughts of Neil Young (sometimes with Crazy Horse, sometimes not). When not on stage or at The Chapel, one can usually spot the members bouncing around Athens, traveling from one hospitality job to the other, looking forward to their future travels. There exist other loosely affiliated choir kids who are scattered there and here, joining in time in songs from time to time. As it passes, time will likely find this group just ahead, writing and recording great songs and singing along with one another.

TBA

"They came into our home. I didn't know if they were moving in or taking over. They didn't look like true scruffers but they had certainly been a long time at sea or the tracks or someplace the same."

Bill Steckel recalls his first near encounter with King of Prussia with a near dumbfounded look penciled upon his face--as if someone had just asked him to explain the concept of infinity. The Prush boys would try their hands at such perpetuity from time to time again on the post-fabricated porch attached to the front of The Chapel. That's where they all hang. We're told that it was built in 1888 and later converted into a home of sorts, at which point it was moved out towards the 10 Loop. At any given point on any given day between the hours of three o'clock p.m. and 03:00 you are likely to hear any number of musical numbers escaping through the windows and wide open doors of The Chapel. That's what the members of King of Prussia do.

Peter Alvanos, Taylor Coggin, Katie Griffin, Brian Hall, Brandon Hanick, Elizabeth Jones, Trey McManus, A.J. Rownd, Brian Smith, and Nathan Troutman contributed to King of Prussia?s first album, Save the Scene, and a plurality performs in the live endeavor.
While a quick assessment of King of Prussia's new album, Save the Scene, might bring to mind a more grandiose Smiths or poppier Flaming Lips, the band's deftly-designed lyrics--which speak of home as place, home as state, consumerism, summertime, etc.--place the band closer to the Steely Dans and Magnetic Fields' of the world.

The world, incidentally, is where the album was recorded all around'.if all around the world then at least all around the two-state region that many call, "The Florida-Georgia Region." Attempting to unify the once warring-universes, Hanick began production of Save the Scene in the closet of his father's apartment in Largo, Fl before making the trek back to Georgia. Playing to click tracks, he crudely/eloquently put the initial acoustic guitar/scratch vocals down on what would become his trusty, portable studio--a Boss BR-1180.

On to Atlanta, Hanick was able to convince Brian Hall (ex-Beijing/Touchdown!) to sneak them in to Georgia State University's practice rooms, high above the city. The mission went off without a hitch and allowed them to do something they hadn't done in previous bands?record live piano. It was a big deal to them and, after much rejoicing, Hanick bid his farewell to Hall and headed back to Athens to get down to the truly time-intensive recording with Trey McManus, proclaimed by all to be the "King of Small Format Recordings." Some may call it a bedroom recording. But very few would agree that it sounds like a bedroom recording. In fact, Save the Scene was recorded at Hanick's home, in Trey's bedroom, at The Chapel and in the liquor storage closet at local discotheque, The Go Bar. McManus and Hanick danced around the rooms and brought people into the warmth of their reverb-laden embrace in order to bring the listener an album that creates its own tangents, references, dimensions.

King of Prussia, while on stage, tend to vacillate between the unruly and the subdued, engrossing the audience and bringing back thoughts of Neil Young (sometimes with Crazy Horse, sometimes not). When not on stage or at The Chapel, one can usually spot the members bouncing around Athens, traveling from one hospitality job to the other, looking forward to their future travels. There exist other loosely affiliated choir kids who are scattered there and here, joining in time in songs from time to time. As it passes, time will likely find this group just ahead, writing and recording great songs and singing along with one another.