Album Review: Mantis & The Prayer - Butterflies & Demons

There's not enough weirdness in music these days.

We're clogged up to the gills with oh-so-cool indie bands and melt-your-face-off EDM bedroom producers, but Mantis & The Prayer bring a theatricality to the table that we didn't know we'd been missing. Their debut LP Butterflies & Demons isn't exactly something you'd stick on in the car - it's better suited as a live deal, mid-way between a Dracula's goth-cabaret and Phantom Of The Opera/Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack. It's not as dark as it likes to think it is, but with an angelic backing vocalist having orgasms and William Parmelee's rumbling Mantis persona, it'd sure translate onto a theatre stage.