Some Voices

Offcell It's finally here, the first Pinback release of all new material since 2001's Blue Screen Life. Off Cell contains five brand new 2003 non-LP tracks including the live crowd pleaser 'Victorious D'. Tracks - 'Microtonic Wave', 'Victorious D', 'Off Cell', 'B' & 'Greay-Machine'. ...	Pinback The contemporary crowning of drum machines, samplers, and synthesizers have led to a brigade of block-rocking beats, each successive blast becoming louder, leaner, and meaner. Meanwhile, Pinback create a more laid-back blend of pop music, augmenting gentler acoustic sounds wit...	Nautical Antiques	Blue Screen Life	Summer in Abaddon Although it may seem like gentle pop music at first, the brilliance of "Summer In Abaddon" is slowly revealed over repeated listenings. The songs are buoyant and lively at times, melancholy and dark at others, and always resonate with an underlying intensity. Pinback lays out bea...
Autumn of the Seraphs Fueled by Rob Crow's trenchant if depressing lyrics and his sweet, high pitched vocals, Pinback employs the old sad-words-plus-pretty-pop-music dichotomy to the best effect yet on Autumn Seraphs. In the three years since Pinback last released an album, nerdy, self-deprecating, se...	Living Well Rob Crow bounces around a lot, from the assorted weirdness of Thingy to his fondness for the Optigan, an obscure type of organ noted primarily for its legendary unreliability. He's also the frontman for the constantly up-and-coming Pinback, and so he knows his way around cerebral...	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Something happened to Spoon between records five and six--they got big. It's not as if these unprepossessing Texans were unpopular before, but after Gimme Fiction, their music was everywhere. There was Britt Daniel, who has since moved to Oregon, singing karaoke on cult favorite ...	We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Their last album may have given them a certifiable radio hit, airtime on VH1, and a Kidz Bop tribute, but listening to the follow-up to 2004's Good News for People Who Love Bad News, you might get the sense that the members of Modest Mouse are flinching at the spotlight. We Were ...	Cease to Begin Band of Horses now rest in the hands of South Carolina tenant Ben Bridwell following the departure of his right-hand man Mat Brooke, who bolted to form Grand Archives following the 2006 inauguration Everything All the Time, and the impassioned Bridwell validates out of the blocks...

some might accuse me of hyperbole...
but I believe that this could be one of the best EPs ever recorded. Totally cohesive, totally brilliant, totally worth the money, and arguably the best introduction to Pinback's capabilities.

Only 4 songs? Not a problem.
This album will keep you listening to those four wonderful songs over and over. The title track starts out unlike any other pinback song I have heard with a prominent bass line and simple drum beat, but then morphes into an ambient and beautiful sample of vocal harmony and unique melody.Manchuria, quite possibly my favorite song on the album, immediately hooks you with a catchy piano progression and an upbeat drumbeat. Add some wonderful vocals, harmony, great chorus and absolutely stunning bridge and outro and you have a great song...Manchuria includes all of these things.Trainer. I love the guitar and bass in this song. They just fit each other so well. Again, more great vocals and a fantastic pre-chorus and chorus.Finally, we come to June. When I saw Pinback live a few months ago, they ended with June. This 7 minute epic will mezmorize you with the beautiful piano structure, strings arrangement, guitar accents and of course Rob's hypmotizing voice. Try to keep the tears in when the chorus hits...I know I couldn't.BUY THIS ALBUM.