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The Ark: Prayer for the Weekend

Leave it to me to be more than a year behind on hearing about a new Ark album (Prayer for the Weekend). It's happened before, after all--and the album hasn't been released in the US (joining all but one of their other albums as import-only).

I'm still absorbing it [1], but so far, it's more of the glam-disco pop that The Ark do better than anyone else, so that makes me happy.

Previously: I saw The Ark perform live, which show ranks among the best I've seen.

[1] Yes, that probably makes it sound more complex than it really is. The Ark don't make "difficult" music, generally, and that's a good thing.

"And I love what you've done with your hair... oh yeah!"

I love it when music makes me happy! & tonight, it's been doing just that.

I heard The Ark's "Echo Chamber" when it was posted on Fluxblog a year and a half ago, totally loved it, & I've been looking for We Are the Ark at record stores ever since (unsuccessfully) [1].

So anyway, I was thrilled to read tonight on The Tofu Hut that The Ark have a new album, "State of the Ark" [2], which is streamable on The Ark's official website.

And also, & on a related note, I picked up the new Darkness album yesterday, and it's just brilliant—they're embracing their inner Queen even more than before. [3] This post does a better job than I could of describing how awesomely rawk the Darkness are (& also raves quite a bit about The Ark).

[1] I could've just bought it off of Amazon, but I hate paying import prices for music that should rightly have been released in the US. It just doesn't seem fair!

[2] Which has been out in Europe for awhile, and which may (?) be released in the US in 2006.

[3] I had only heard snippets of "One Way Ticket," the first single, before buying the album—and I seriously thought I'd accidentally bought the wrong CD when it started with a fucking panflute. But it's all part of the fun!