Album artwork for Distance is a Mirror by Public Practice
Album artwork for Distance is a Mirror by Public Practice
Album artwork for Distance is a Mirror by Public Practice

Public Practice's debut EP Distance is a Mirror. Available here on Rough Trade Exclusive Deluxe Edition Signed Standard Black 12" EP with Bonus Flexi Disc (feat. a remix by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts and Matty Fasano of House of Feelings) and a Limited Special Edition Download Card with Bonus Tracks. .

The debut EP from New York band Public Practice, Distance is a Mirror, is a confident, juried testimony of love steeped in dark optimism. Dry, deadpan vocals chant over skittish guitar and danceable 70s grooves - songs snapping like rubber bands - seesawing between post-punk and its insomniac twin sister disco. With contradicting references as overt as Talking Heads (without the shoulders), but as specific as Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra (with some polka dots), the band is carrying a funky torch that does not get lit too often.

The four members of Public Practice - singer Sam York, guitarist Vince McClelland, synth/bassist and vocalist Drew Citron, and drummer/programmer and producer Scott Rosenthal - are no strangers to songwriting. A Brooklyn DIY super group of sorts, Public Practice combines members of freshly-dead punk project WALL and local pop band Beverly. Public Practice backs their ambitious songwriting with serious chops, their live shows already pulling them into the sharp foreground of a scene growing all too warm-and-fuzzy.

This 4 song debut EP anchors Public Practice as a new band with wisdom like their influences, bringing songs distinctly fresh as they are familiar. Tired of the familiar? Seeing dots? Wake up!

LP - Rough Trade Exclusive Deluxe Edition - Signed Standard Black 12" EP with Bonus Flexi Disc (feat. a remix by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts and Matty Fasano of House of Feelings) and a Limited Special Edition Download Card with Bonus Tracks.

LP - Standard Black 12" EP.

CD - Standard CD.

Public Practice

Distance is a Mirror

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Album artwork for Distance is a Mirror by Public Practice
CD

$11.99

Released 10/26/2018Catalog Number

WCR088CD

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Album artwork for Distance is a Mirror by Public Practice
LP

$16.99

Standard Black 12" EP.

Released 10/26/2018Catalog Number

WCR088

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Public Practice

Distance is a Mirror

Wharf Cat
Album artwork for Distance is a Mirror by Public Practice
CD

$11.99

Released 10/26/2018Catalog Number

WCR088CD

Learn more
Album artwork for Distance is a Mirror by Public Practice
LP

$16.99

Standard Black 12" EP.

Released 10/26/2018Catalog Number

WCR088

Learn more

Public Practice's debut EP Distance is a Mirror. Available here on Rough Trade Exclusive Deluxe Edition Signed Standard Black 12" EP with Bonus Flexi Disc (feat. a remix by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts and Matty Fasano of House of Feelings) and a Limited Special Edition Download Card with Bonus Tracks. .

The debut EP from New York band Public Practice, Distance is a Mirror, is a confident, juried testimony of love steeped in dark optimism. Dry, deadpan vocals chant over skittish guitar and danceable 70s grooves - songs snapping like rubber bands - seesawing between post-punk and its insomniac twin sister disco. With contradicting references as overt as Talking Heads (without the shoulders), but as specific as Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra (with some polka dots), the band is carrying a funky torch that does not get lit too often.

The four members of Public Practice - singer Sam York, guitarist Vince McClelland, synth/bassist and vocalist Drew Citron, and drummer/programmer and producer Scott Rosenthal - are no strangers to songwriting. A Brooklyn DIY super group of sorts, Public Practice combines members of freshly-dead punk project WALL and local pop band Beverly. Public Practice backs their ambitious songwriting with serious chops, their live shows already pulling them into the sharp foreground of a scene growing all too warm-and-fuzzy.

This 4 song debut EP anchors Public Practice as a new band with wisdom like their influences, bringing songs distinctly fresh as they are familiar. Tired of the familiar? Seeing dots? Wake up!

LP - Rough Trade Exclusive Deluxe Edition - Signed Standard Black 12" EP with Bonus Flexi Disc (feat. a remix by Austin Brown of Parquet Courts and Matty Fasano of House of Feelings) and a Limited Special Edition Download Card with Bonus Tracks.

LP - Standard Black 12" EP.

CD - Standard CD.