Prudence (Tom Crandles of Au.Ra) Announces New Album Negatives

Prudence (Tom Crandles of Au.Ra) Announces New Album Negatives Out August 26

Stream New Single “Waste Some Time”

photo credit: McLean Stephenson

“There’s a subtle kinetic energy that gives Prudence a comfortable tingle, a kind of positive pressure that fills up the crevices of the brain and smooths things out.” – NME

“Prudence lends a curious, uneasy edge, a volatility hidden beneath the easy facade that unnerves and delights in equal measure” – Various Small Flames

On August 26, Prudence, the recording project of composer and session bass player Tom Crandles, will release Negatives (pre-order). Today the band is pleased to present the album’s first single “Waste Some Time.” The song debuted today at Destroy//Exist and is available now on Bandcamp.

On the song Tom Crandles says, “’Waste Some Time’ was one of the last compositions for Negatives. Its substance sits in its linear structure. The concept was to create what feels like a pop song with no verse or chorus and a progressive structure having no section repeat.”

Known previously for his work as outfit COLOURS, as well as one half of Au.Ra (felte), Prudence began organically as a song writing endeavour with an emphasis on self expression and exploration. Initially working in bedsits and hotel rooms across the UK and Europe; Tom now records from his studio in Sydney.

In Prudence, Tom offers his own idiosyncratic vision of the world – one that feels electric yet effortless; a natural disaster of melody and noise in a disorientating sea of emotion.

Drawing on his own tragic comedy to capture the vagaries of the turmoil, recovery, pain and joy we’ve all been through, Prudence has a penchant for certain human impulses; expressing desire, ache, isolation, and bitterness in an addictive dialect.

With musical influences that range from Haruomi Hosono to Michael Gira, Warren Zevon to Anita Lane and Mark Hollis to Bjork, Negatives paints introspective moments in time alone spent in his home studio spanning an eclectic variety of genres from Indie to Ambient and Post Punk to Pop placing it in a genre of it’s own that is always underpinned by the richness and complexity in its song-writing.

Negatives is the latest Prudence offering. A cohesive collection of 12 pieces composed from 2019 to 2022, reflective of this turbulent time, the record dives through deep, layered, musical textures and familiar subject matter, landing on the hauntingly, familiar solace that is consistent through the Prudence catalogue.