Where Grunge was born at the beginning of the 90's, a new band gets ready to establish modern power-pop now.

Seattle, home of such illustrious acts like MUDHONEY, NIRVANA, SOUNDGARDEN and PEARL JAM is now primarily the homebase of the BOSS MARTIANS, which brings us straight to the PRANKS, whose debut-album is supposed to be praised here, simply because the creative force behind the band is no other than Erik Foster, the "little" brother of BOSS MARTIANS mastermind Evan Foster, who by the way is as well responsible for the superb production of the album.

The PRANKS belong to the very few exceptional acts these days, who have really understand how to use the "golden key" of power-pop to open the right door.

The perfect mixture of classic late 70's power-pop made popular by bands like the PLIMSOULS, NERVES & PAUL COLLINS' BEAT and the untamed pop-punk of the same decade, brought to us by, for example the BUZZCOCKS and the POINTED STICKS, paired with the breathtaking energy, which characterised MR.T.EXPERIENCE and the early GREEN DAY in the 90's, led them straight to "gate one" and the involved first prize."Modern Communication" lives from the enormous drive all the songs own, from a production which perfectly fits to the sound of the band, from the loud, buzzing guitars and most of all from their ability to write great, dead catchy tunes.

Just listen to the album opener, "Your world falls down around you", 120 seconds of pure pop heaven, without drowning in stereotypes and sounding too sweet and you will understand what we are talking about.

Who's able to clothe a pop-tune in a tight punk-rock suit surely deserves an award. And this should definitely happen to these popmeisters, called the PRANKS, cuz what we got here is a power-pop band that like to rock.

The "Yummy" for the best modern power-pop band goes to ... THE PRANKS. Time to take a bow!!!