Princess Goes premieres the music video and title track for their new album, Come Of Age via In De Goot Recordings.
“This beautiful track came out of Matt Katz Bohen’s incredible imagination,” drummer Peter Yanowitz said. “In Princess, we love the band Future Islands, and I think you can hear their influence in this tune. These are among my favorite lyrics Mike has written.”
The band said there are audio aspects of the new recording inspired by streetwise “re-use.”
“One nice touch is that we recorded that distortion live on Mike’s vocal,” Yanowitz said. “For the production geeks … the pre-amp we used on Mike’s vocal was an Avalon 727. The original song all started with a discarded Yamaha synthesizer Matt found in the garbage on the street in Brooklyn.”
Check out ‘Come Of Age’ here:
The New York City-bred trio have been gigging and recording DIY-style for several years, self-producing and releasing a self-titled debut EP in April 2020 and a full-length debut, Thanks for Coming, in 2021. Touring the West Coast as well as the UK and Ireland found new fans coming to see the eclectic trio.
Hall, Katz-Bohen, and Yanowitz are seasoned performers forging new creative ground together in Princess Goes. Hall is best known for playing moralistic serial killer Dexter Morgan from Showtime hit Dexter as well as David Fisher from HBO’s revered Six Feet Under. Katz-Bohen has played with Blondie since 2008, while Yanowitz is a veteran of the Wallflowers and his own group, Morningwood.
Come Of Age – TRACKLISTING:
01. Offering
02. Let It Go
03. Blur
04. Come Of Age
05. Shimmer
06. Jetpack
07. Glasswing
08. Take Me Home
09. Beija
10. Saving Grace
11. Whatever Whispers
12. Floating
Though onstage and on paper they’re a keyboards-drums-vocals band, Come Of Age is rife with guitar and bass, instruments that play a bigger role than on previous recordings.
“I think the original sounds that Matt and Peter first made came about because necessity was the mother of invention,” Hall said. “It’s what was in the studio when they first started making instrumental tracks, electronic drums and a lot of keyboards.”
“We like the fact that a lot of the times you can’t tell instrumentally what’s what,” keyboardist Katz-Bohen said. “People say ‘that sounds like a guitar,’ but it’s actually a keyboard playing through a guitar amp. There’s always that ‘what makes that sound? What is that thing?’”
Writing new music since the release of Thanks for Coming, Princess Goes recorded Come of Age at the band’s Clubhouse near Manhattan’s Union Square. The central location allowed for stellar guests, including next-door neighbor Maria Peña Paris, a Colombian poet who became the Spanish voice on the Latin-tinged “Whatever Whispers.”
Although Come of Age is the group’s second full-length album, Princess Goes are as excited as first-timers.
“Until now we’ve been gestating in this small world, being in our own cocoon and working the last bunch of years,” Yanowitz said. “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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