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ARTIST
TITLE
Prisoners Of Love And Hate
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
LSSN 087LP LSSN 087LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/31/2024

"Prisoners Of Love And Hate is an offering to community, to desires that imprison and liberate, to people in all their divinity and ugliness. Apostille -- aka Night School Records' captain Michael Kasparis -- presents his third album with a bang, a bursting ball of NRG, empathy and bristling living. Like its predecessor Choose Life, Prisoners was recorded in Full Ashram Celestial Garden in Glasgow with Lewis Cook (Free Love) through 2022. A nine-song treatise on pop music, trauma, ecstasy and the mundanities between the extremes, Kasparis takes on classic '80s synth pop, '90s house music, '00s trance, wistful balladry, and '70s power pop. The thread that runs through the album is a boundless energy, an openness to the moment, to living the pains and joys equally, open armed. This is a place of no judgement, of possibility, challenge and comfort. The nine songs on Prisoners can be read as separate ruminations on the feelings and desires that imprison our experience. Through it all the narrator struggles against them, transported and fooled by love and longing, peering through the bars of anguish, flailing in a cell of emotions. A recognition that all ecstasy has tragedy laced within is a theme that is sewn throughout the LP. It's a testament to the new confidence in Kasparis's songwriting, sure, but also to the enduring power of people to come together in mutual dependence and love. If ecstasy is always laced with tragedy, the Prisoners of Love and Hate can always reach out between the bars to meet in the middle, the eternal now."