Prima Queen "The Prize" COLOR:CLEAR With Beasties at their most

With Beasties at their most overtly political

Produced by frontman John Rzeznik alongside the band's longtime collaborators Brad Fernquist and Jimmy McGorman

unsettlingly spews 12 crypttic cuts that'll leave your skull in ruins

confident embrace of the deeply personal

a collaboration that also marked his last full-length foray into hip-hop until Cheat Codes

Prima Queen "The Prize" COLOR:CLEAR With Beasties at their mostCandid, involving and full of character, Prima Queen's music has become a world unto itself. The songs of Louise Macphail and Kristin McFadden play like a love letter to the radical power of friendship; to the fans who have reveled in the band's bitingly charismatic storytelling. Listening to their glorious debut LP The Prize (due spring 2025 via Submarine Cat Records), you want to crawl up inside all of it's effusive, empathic melodies and bathe in