Finally, after 5 years outspoken and utterly exciting all-female Manchester act PINS is back with a brand new album. HOT SLICK is the band’s third LP following the punchy power pop longplayers Girls Like Us (2013) and Wild Nights (2015).
Keywords:
21st Century disco inferno
Synth-driven extravaganza
Mixed emotions bangers
Women in the world
Footloose euphoria
Dirty bad girls dancing
Hot Donna Summer stuff
Addictive vibrations
Swaying ponytails
Dancing queens
Pulp-fiction-pop
Funky feminism
Lust for high heels life
Propulsive pinups
Without a shadow of a doubt Saturday Night Fever album of the year!
Key Tracks: Hot Slick / Bad Girls Forever / Ponytail / Ghosting
PINS is definitely the coolest band on this troubled planet right now. With the five new stompers they dropped so far it’s crystal clear that we may expect one of the best albums
of this messed-up year. And if that wasn’t already enough the all-girl sensation just shared their ace cover of Joy Division‘s’ cracker ‘ISOLATION’ referring of course to today’s surreal quarantine days. They turned the classic cracker into a synth-driven groove made to be a global discotheque hit, but given the lockdown situation, you can go crazy to it at home for the time being.
Move your hips here…
Continue to dance with the five
new tracks of the upcoming album PINS dropped so far
Eleven standout tracks played on repeat in March!
A heated mix of flaming rippers and glowing grooves
energizing all of my senses and limbs this past month!
Here’s Turn Up The Volume‘s Knockout March Team!
1. No Rock Save In Roll by CORNERSHOP (Northern London)
This sickly sticky earworm will put a big smile on your face! Welcome back Cornershop!
2. ‘Ponytail’ by PINS (Manchester, UK)
Hot disco banger that should be played in all discotheques around the globe. Dance fever!
3. ‘Home Thru Hell’ by DEAP LIPS (California, US)
The Flaming Lips + Deap Vally = Utterly Cool Yamaha Magic
4. ‘Vicious Little Sister’ by THE MEDICINE DOLLS (Cape Town)
Unquestionably one of the blowup singles of the year! The Medicine Dolls rule!
5. ‘Luminescence’ by THE HIDEAWAYS (Bristol, UK)
This burning sledgehammer’s riff is TITANIC! Kick-ass stroke! Hells bells!
. 6. ‘Cause Effect’ by SINKA (Watford, UK)
High-powered blast fueled by crazed guitars, banging percussion and racy vocals. Yeah!
. 7. ‘Somebody Else’ by PLASTIC SUN (UK)
Melodious swagger bringing stone rock icons Queens Of The Stone Age to mind. Top-notch!
. 8. ‘Louder’ byTWIST HELIX (Newcastle, UK)
A swirling electro pop stunner with sassy synths and stunning vocals. Bingo!
. 9. ‘Lungs’ by THE MIGHTY ORCHID KING (St.Albans, UK)
A retro psych vibe with a revitalizing, stimulating and spiritual impact. Save the trees!
. 10. ‘TheWorldIsClosingDown’ byTV COMA (St. Albans, UK)
A catchy apocalyptic psych pop humdinger. Witty, satirical and pungent.
11. ‘Harbor Me’ by AUDRI (Belgium)
Starry-eyed vocals, clapping flamenco hands and glimmering guitars. A trippy beauty!
Manchester’s astounding PINS dropped another thrilling piece from their upcoming,
third album called ‘HOT SLICK’ which according to the band is influenced by some big electro acts from the past and present such as LCD Soundsystem, New Order, and synth punk pioneers Suicide. So far we danced to the stomping title track and the booming corker Bad Girls Forever.
And here’s new cut ‘PONYTAIL’. “A song about going out at night and hitting the dancefloor. It’s got processed guitars, blippy keyboards, and a spare drum-machine rattle working for it.”
It’s another sickly sticky disco banger that should be played in all discotheques around
the globe. Sensual, sultry and totally addictive. It seems like PINS has become a kick-ass groove machine making me impatiently waiting for the new record. Without a shadow of
a doubt the coolest band on the planet right now.
Eleven superb tracks that energized my sonic
bloodstream this month. From roaring to moody,
from shaky to gloomy. Here is the sonic dope…
1. ‘Hot Slick’ by PINS
Without a shadow of a doubt one of the most exciting bangers of the year! Utterly cool!
. 2. ‘Scavengers’ by MECHANIMAL (Greece)
A high-powered industrial, darkwave drone that will blow you of your socks…
3.’Conveyor’ by LICE (Bristol, UK)
Ominous and thunderous jackhammer. Armageddon is just around the corner…
. 4. ‘See What I See‘ by SINKA (Watford, England)
A powerhouse smack and ear-splitting outburst that will trash your speakers…
5. ‘Paranoiacs’ by CHEMTRAILS (Manchester, UK)
A flaming ripper that encourages you to get up in the morning and kick some macho ass…
. 6. ‘Dreams Like Drugs’ by LIONS OF DISSENT: LIONS OF DISSENT (Wolverhampton, UK)
Transcendent psychedelia at its dazzling best. Sonic dope to get eight miles high to…
So far the wonderful Manchester ladies PINS released two exquisite guitar pop albums Girls Like Us (2013) and my favourite Wild Nights (2015), one EP Bad Thing (with a track called Aggrophobe featuring living legend Iggy Pop, in return Pins did backing vocals on Pop‘s 2019 single James Bond) and splendiferous protest single Serve The Rich both issued in 2017
Today the outspoken feminists launched superb single ‘HOT SLICK’, produced by The
Kills’ Jamie Hince with whom they worked together previously. It’s a spicy disco stomper.
A sickly sticky synth-driven killer track. An electrifying groove with an irresistible beat and
a sensual “get away, get away, I’ve got to get away” chorus with spicy echoes from Donna Summer‘s I Feel Love and Robert Palmer’s Addicted To Love. This dance floor earworm is
a blissful standout that will boost your mood instantly and will make your hips sway.
Next Monday – 23 October, Antwerp, Belgium – I will see the awesome THE BREEDERS finally again. But I’m at least equally excited to see, support act, the stellar Manchester
gang PINS too… again. They soundtrack their rage against injustice, intolerance and all sorts of inequality in our society with gloriously amplified knockout pop punk rock gems. Check their two flaming albumsGIRLS LIKE US (2013) and WILD NIGHTS (2015) and this year’s excellent 5-track Bad Thing EP, including a collaboration with the one and only punkfather IGGY POP. A few weeks ago, ahead of a series of headline dates & the support slots with The Breeders across Europe the band launched stand out single SERVE THE RICH. Produced by JAMIE HINCE of ‘The Kills‘ it’s a ‘loud and clear’ cracker “about how sometimes we feel like we only exist to make money for other people, it’s a swizz. We are promised things by saviours, these people who have come to rescue us, but it’s not true. ‘Serve The Rich’ was my opportunity to assert myself. I’m saying that we as PINS, musicians, women, Labour voters, and feminists, are here to save the kids, we’re here to save each other, we’re here to save ourselves. ”
After two excellent albums (GirLs Like Us and Wild Nights) all female garage pop band PINS from Manchester will release a brand new EP tomorrow titled BAD THING. After sharing first track ‘Aggrophobe‘ featuring legend Iggy Pop a few weeks back the girls now launched a video for second new track ALL HAIL. Catchy as hell with a dark twist. Tune in…
