Album Of The Week: Prince Rama Top 10 Hits Of The End Of The World

It's not like I've spent a vast chunk of my life thinking about Brooklyn deep-psych sister-act Prince Rama, but when I have thought of them, I haven't always thought the nicest of things. At their inception, the Larson sisters always struck me as collegiate art-stoners who wore their Floridian Krishna-commune upbringings like cooler-than-you badges. That's not a particularly fair assessment, but it's the sort of thing that we all end up doing when we're sorting through the vast digital piles of unheard new music, trying to figure out which ascendant bands deserve our listening energies. And so Prince Rama, to me, were gimmicky Afghan-rug zone-out curios with a decent enough sound but no innate qualities that made them essential. And then they went and made an entire concept album in which they attempted to channel all the most popular songs on the radio during the apocalypse. And that's certainly one way to get my attention.