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San Diego's Pinback are a duo comprising guitarist Rob Crow (formerly of Heavy Vegetable) and bassist Armistead Burwell "Zach" Smith, from 3 Mile Pilot. To describe them as lo-fi is insultingly simplistic, as they are clearly attempting to reverentially modernise the classic songwriting format. With the pair's soft and ghostly vocals interweaving and blending over a repetitive strum, sweet keyboard, and a clatter and hiss of purposefully varied percussion, you're left thinking of an uptempo Low, a downbeat Elliott Smith or occasionally even Simon & Garfunkel fronting Labradford. Throughout, electronic bleeps, stabs
San Diego's Pinback are a duo comprising guitarist Rob Crow (formerly of Heavy Vegetable) and bassist Armistead Burwell "Zach" Smith, from 3 Mile Pilot. To describe them as lo-fi is insultingly simplistic, as they are clearly attempting to reverentially modernise the classic songwriting format. With the pair's soft and ghostly vocals interweaving and blending over a repetitive strum, sweet keyboard, and a clatter and hiss of purposefully varied percussion, you're left thinking of an uptempo Low, a downbeat Elliott Smith or occasionally even Simon & Garfunkel fronting Labradford. Throughout, electronic bleeps, stabs of organ, weird scratching and spectral snippets of vocal leap out of the mix, or drift diffidently past, lending the album a richness that allows for repeated and increasingly gratifying listening. And all of it was engineered, recorded and mixed in Smith's little room--incredible. --Dominic Wills
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Manufacturer: Cutty Shark
EAN: 5411659790221
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