| You Can't Pray a Lie | |
| Type: | album |
| Artist: | Laughing Hyenas |
| Cover: | Laughing Hyenas You Cant Pray a Lie.jpg |
| Studio: | Smart Studios, Madison, WI[1] |
| Genre: | Noise Rock,hardcore punk, post-hardcore, punk blues, garage punk |
| Length: | 31:13 |
| Label: | Touch and Go[2] |
| Producer: | Laughing Hyenas, Butch Vig |
| Prev Title: | Come Down to the Merry Go Round |
| Prev Year: | 1987 |
| Next Title: | Life of Crime |
| Next Year: | 1990 |
You Can't Pray a Lie is the debut studio album of American garage rock band Laughing Hyenas.[3] It was released in 1989 by Touch and Go Records.[4] It was reissued in 1992 accompanied with Life of Crime.
Trouser Press praised Larissa Strickland's guitar playing.[4] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide called the album "a perfect coalescing of the violence of punk and the guitar stomp of the coming grunge sound." Andrew Earles, in Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996, wrote that "many albums throughout rock-and-roll's history could carry the additional signifier 'hard-living set to music,' but few are as convincing as the albums made by Laughing Hyenas."[5]
Adapted from the You Can't Pray a Lie liner notes.[6]