Paydirt
Pray TV's landmark 1992 album. Brooding melodic indie pop full of references to Joy Division, Husker Du, Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Nominated for an Aussie ARIA award. "..a devilishly clever and initially sombre opus in the Joy Division tradition" - Rolling Stone
"Absolutely thunderous guitar, Aftermath is a pretty marvellous song, alternately quietly powerful passages with more patches of rousing exhilarating axework" - Alternative Press 1994
"Pray TV comes out of nowhere with determined rock shaded by goth influence and big choruses that dwarf the last 10 years of US college rock" - New York Press 1993
"Check out Pray TV..it certainly sounds like Wasteland (Radioactive Records) has a monster on its hands" - Gavin Report 1993
"The bands second album Paydirt is hardly troubled with the narrowed buzzsaw dynamic associated with early Husker Du, preferring a more languid bittersweetness to seep through their wingtipped grunge, a leftover influence from Joy Divisions bass led sobriety, leaving space