Prayers Electric don’t waste time pretending to be bigger than they are. They don’t need to. The Manchester-based duo have carved out a sound that feels oversized, unruly and gloriously physical, all built from one split guitar, one drum kit and two musicians who simply refused to stop turning up.
Their origin story is refreshingly unromantic. When their previous four-piece DRAT dissolved, Jem Evans (guitar/lead vocals) and Farris Batley-Moss (drums/backing vocals) kept rehearsing anyway because playing together was too much fun to abandon. Their first full show as Prayers Electric — at Brown’s Tiki Bar in Stockport — confirmed the truth: this wasn’t a stopgap, it was the band.
Prayers Electric operate on a simple but explosive premise: one guitar split into two paths — a biting fuzzed guitar signal and an octave-down bass chain driven hard enough to rattle the room. Farris locks the whole thing together with fast, physical drums and backing vocals that push the choruses into overdrive.
Their songs start lean and groove-led, then steadily tighten until the full-gain stage arrives: fuzz, shouted hooks, crash cymbals and a closing run that feels like a two-person detonation. They’re confident without swagger, idea-led without pretension, and more than willing to look foolish if it means landing something memorable.
Fans of The White Stripes, The Hives, Viagra Boys and The Pack A.D. will find plenty to latch onto — but Prayers Electric’s charm lies in how they twist those influences into something scrappy, modern and unmistakably theirs.
Their current single Eyeballs is three minutes of fuzz-driven alternative punk that turns polished charm, manipulation and dead-eyed modern life into a snarling, hook-heavy sprint.
The video — their first professional shoot — is a delirious handmade fever dream: Jem and Farris trapped inside a papier-mâché surveillance nightmare populated by human-sized eyeball creatures. The props were crafted in-house and performed by friends and members of the Band on the Wall Folk and World Choir, filmed over two days in Manchester.
Eyeballs leads directly into their recently released Going Round Again EP (14 August 2026) — a four-track record about work, escape, performance, reckless coping and the strange ways persistence reshapes you.
Prayers Electric are, above all else, a live band. Their set is designed like a tightening coil: groove-driven indie rock at the start, full-gain chaos at the end. Two people becoming much larger without losing the directness of a duo.
They’ve already hit Rock the Castle Festival (2025, 2026), headlined 33 Oldham Street, packed out HMV Chester, and played across Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, North Wales and Worcestershire.
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