| 1. Tripoli |
| 2. Hurley |
| 3. Charborg |
| 4. Chaos Engine |
| 5. Shag |
| 6. Loro |
| 7. Crutch |
| 8. Rousseau |
| 9. Lyon |
| 10. Montaigne |
Editorial Reviews
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 with contemporary technology. The result is rainy-day music for the next millennium. The catchy fingerpicking on "Hurley," bound with a simple snare and bass, recalls early Folk Implosion; all snowy sighs and melancholy melody, it's easily the disc's strongest track. A couple of cuts are so nonthreatening they recede into soft-rock background music, but the multi-instrumentalist duo Armistead Burwell Smith IV (formerly of Three Mile Pilot) and Rob Crow deliver a mostly satisfying bouquet of thoughtful, somewhat spooky electro-emo pop. --Jason Josephes
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Blue Screen Life
Pinback Manufacturer: Ace Fu Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005QXEL Release Date: 2001-10-23 |
Tracks:
- Offline P.K.
- Concrete Seconds - Pinback, Tom Zinser
- Boo
- Bbtone
- Penelope
- Talby
- X I Y
- Prog - Pinback, Tom Zinser
- Your Sickness - Pinback, Tom Zinser
- Seville
- West
- Tres
Customer Reviews:
Reference piece.......2007-01-10
Solid album all the way through.......2006-08-25
The Greatest Pinback album.......2006-06-16
Offline P.K. is an extremely good start, sporting the two vocalists trading off lyrics as well as fairly intricate basslines which continue through the disc. Concrete Seconds, Boo, and Penelope are instantly catchy. The remainder of the cd is great until it gets to tres- then its amazing. I could not imagine a more perfect closer than this profoundly beautiful masterpiece. The lyric " There's a definate feeling buried down/ recking itself taking you with me" is repeated through much of the song yet never loses its beauty.
this was actually the first indie album i listened to and is an album of which i compare all others.
Intellegent catchy ness.......2006-05-23
The repetition found throughout this disc leads to inspired head bopping serenity that doesn't quite sound, or effect, like anything else out there. At times overcome by their elaborate progressive-pop echo chambers, they often triumph in delivering that rare combination of quirkiness and melancholy, driven by a hungry ear from singer/guitarist in their layering tendencies inside the already intricate guitar and vocal layouts. Unabashedly melodic and quirky with subtly progressive undertones, Pinback can definitely help build some great bridges for some terribly dull music collections for alot of young listeners out there..
Best of Pinback.......2005-12-18
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Summer in Abaddon
Pinback Manufacturer: Touch & Go Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002Z9ZQI Release Date: 2004-10-12 |
Tracks:
- Non Photo-Blue
- Sender
- Syracuse
- Bloods On Fire
- Fortress
- This Red Book
- Soaked
- 3X0
- The Yellow Ones
- AFK
Album Description
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 beautiful melodies that are deceptively complex, layering sounds and instruments upon one another and trading contrasting vocal parts with easeCustomer Reviews:
Plateau Music.......2007-07-17
That sad, I really like the song "Fortress."
Celebrated Summer.......2007-04-01
Abaddon ("the place of destruction" in the Bible) is a reference to hell. The sleeve art illustrates the listener's colorful descent into an underground bunker beneath a desert at the onset, and their reemergence at the other end. In the complete absence of musical themes like dissonant triads and soul-rending howls to mirror a descent into damnation, we're reminded that hell takes many forms. Sometimes things are destroyed just because they fall apart. This is somehow more fittingly sinister than heavy metal's typical depiction of overt terror and cruelty. The record chronicles a lengthy depression or period of suffering, and the narrator's efforts to come out unscathed-- something fairly universal to humanity.
Like most of Pinback's back catalog, "Summer in Abaddon" is a head-bobbing collection of cleverly disguised lullabies coated with aural superglue. You'll hear the bass riff in "Fortress" mirroring your walk up the escalator, or the sludgy plod of "Non-Photo Blue" following your fingers through yet another ignored forum post ("she's posting all the time, but the boards are down / it's a burned-out building"). The deceptively simple rhythm of "This Red Book" will haunt your subconscious for months.
They should be exalted as the true masters of rhythmic guitar pop. Nearly everything worth commenting on about Pinback arises from their perfect knack for sewing hooks through a heartbeat metronome pulse. Endless rhythmic variations are shelves for the notes and rests to sit on. Pick any Pinback tune at random to listen to. You'll swear you're listening to something human yet mechanical at the same time. Like the endless tick of a fine Swiss watch, the inner workings are ludicrously complex, but the outward result looks simply elegant. "Summer in Abaddon" sees Pinback at the pinnacle of their talents.
Continues to refine .......2006-10-04
Pinback - Summer in Abaddon.......2006-09-18
Really well.
In fact, by three songs into my first listen, I though I had discovered my new favorite album. I recalled the good reviews I'd read online that prompted me to buy my first Pinback album and felt incredibly fortunate that I'd followed their advice.
Those feelings, unfortunately, rarely last.
Imagine my dissapointment when I realized that by track eight I was already having trouble just getting myself to pay attention. Certainly, this wasn't the same band I was listening to just a few songs ago. I found myself thinking: Where is the energy? Where's the variety, the engaging vocals, the toe-tapping instrumentation? I mean, this album was the first time I'd ever heard Pinback, but I felt like I had been somehow misslead by the first three songs.
On subsequent listens I realized the album loses a good part of its charm somewhere between Bloods On Fire and This Red Book. The middle part of the album is chock-full of middle-of-the-road instrumentation [compared to the pulsating energy of Sender and Syracuse, or the swirling melodies of Non Photo-Blue], with engaging hooks as rare as they are short [i.e. the "Stop, it's too late!" bit in Fortress, which just makes the rest of the song pale in comparison]. In a way the songs become undistinguishable by the end. The repetition would easily be more enjoyable if the band threw in a suitably interesting bit or two, but instead when they try to pull this off, like in Bloods On Fire, it sounds too forced and just doesn't fit.
Personally, I like the lyrics. They are mysterious and ambiguous but not too abstract. Terrin Durfey's voice, while distinguished and engaging in the first few songs, gets somehow pushed back and becomes just another instrument by the end of the album. The whole album falls into the background and only reappears somewhat by the final two songs. AFK tries to recapture the passion of the album's opener, but ends up just tripping over itself in the process.
In summation, an consistant, honest effort, but don't be misslead by the first few songs, it is by no means the perfect album it's made out to be. 6/10.
You will NOT be disappointed. .......2006-08-31
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Pinback
Pinback Manufacturer: Ace Fu Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00001WRNI Release Date: 1999-10-12 |
Tracks:
- Tripoli
- Hurley
- Charborg
- Chaos Engine
- Shag
- Loro
- Crutch
- Rousseau
- Lyon
- Montaigne
Amazon.com
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 with contemporary technology. The result is rainy-day music for the next millennium. The catchy fingerpicking on "Hurley," bound with a simple snare and bass, recalls early Folk Implosion; all snowy sighs and melancholy melody, it's easily the disc's strongest track. A couple of cuts are so nonthreatening they recede into soft-rock background music, but the multi-instrumentalist duo Armistead Burwell Smith IV (formerly of Three Mile Pilot) and Rob Crow deliver a mostly satisfying bouquet of thoughtful, somewhat spooky electro-emo pop. --Jason JosephesCustomer Reviews:
Bubbly Beginnings.......2006-08-06
Magic Web of Cords.......2006-02-13
Pinback uses deep cords and tunes with bass and gutair to hit alot of points.
One thing is that you will always know a pinback song. They have a sound that is similar in all their songs but they change it just enough to allow a great album, and albums. Thanks!
Great band.......2005-11-25
really beautiful.......2005-06-09
Stunning, Beautiful, and Inspiring.......2004-07-01
The instruments used are lovely, and complete, giving Pinback its cutting edge. The lyrics are also very, very memorable if you get to know them also. Each song feels like its own masterpiece and single, and is a pleasure to hear. The way each song is played is almost inexprecible. Excellent album, and a MUST to hear... Well, if you are into the Indie Rock genre.
My hat off to Rob Crow and Armistead Burwell Smith...
..If I had a hat.
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Nautical Antiques
Pinback Manufacturer: Ace Fu Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000H7ZZNI Release Date: 2006-09-05 |
Tracks:
- Messenger
- Versailles
- Anti-Hu
- Byzantine
- Water Run
- Avignon
- Seville (demo)
- Concrete Seconds (demo)
- Clemenceau
- Avignon (full band version)
- Messenger (full band version)
Album Description
A collection of outtakes, B-sides and rarities from the early years of Pinback's career. "Nautical Antiques" is a thorough exploration of the lush harmonies, ethereal guitar work and pop inventiveness that popularized the band.Customer Reviews:
The more depressing side of pinback...........2007-01-09
An album flows from one track to another.
This is a mash of some of the best, most obscure pinback songs.
Specifically, Messenger, Anti-hu, and Byzantine are three of the most amazing obscure songs Pinback has ever created. The fact that they are put on the same cd as Avignon and Clemenceau bothers me, as it gives the entire cd a sad feel. Clemenceau is the most depressing Pinback song ever created, and it acts as a black hole for the adjacent tracks, sucking dry any residual positive energy left by byzantine or messenger's catchy rhythms.
Then again, it is pinback, and they are brilliant.
And I suppose they need at least one downer album to show they can run the gamut of emotions from unhappy to melancholy.
oh damn........2006-09-25
It is such a treat to get the two versions of Messenger and Avignon, not to mention the original demo versions of Seville and Concrete Seconds. For a musician, life could not be better. We get to see what these songs were like in their early stages, and the changes they made to them to create the polished pop songs we hear on later records.
To me the standout on this record is "Water Runs". Pinback is a mellow band, but Water Runs is even mellow for them. So mellow it's creepy and haunting. I can't get enough of it.
This album is for Pinback fans. I would even call it a reward for being devoted enough to a band to buy a B-Sides CD. It creates a home for songs that should have been on Blue Screen Life, or This is a Pinback CD. So stop scouring ebay for $50 cds with Anti-hu on them, and pick this up.
Underrated, if ever a band was........2006-09-13
This one brings "Anti-Hu" to the masses, which is worth the money alone. Why it's not officially released on Amazon is beyond me.
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Offcell
Pinback Manufacturer: Absolutely Kosher ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00009EIS9 Release Date: 2003-06-10 |
Tracks:
- Microtonic Wave
- Victorious D
- Offcell
- B
- Grey Machine
Album Description
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'. Absolutely Kosher Records.Customer Reviews:
Pinback's Masterpiece?.......2005-12-18
I finally caught them live at Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC with the amazing Mates of State opening. Incredible live and on CD, Pinback will get the respect they deserve once more people start buying Offcell. Two dollars a song, so what? Invest in the future.
best album ever.......2004-12-13
cauterize my ears.......2003-12-03
After Blue Screen Life, I was concerned that Pinback would not be able to out-do themselves. And I contend that this EP does not necessarily out-do any previous work, but bridges a natural progression of sonic excellence.
What drew me to this band was the catchiness(i.e. Penelope, Concrete Seconds) and the grasp and manipulation of rhythm (i.e. Offline PK, Prog). These elements remain in full fluency. What seems different to me is the overall tone. It feels more dark and mechanical to me than previous recordings. I mean this only as an observation, not a criticism. There's just a seriousness that I feel from this.
Perhaps fans should be a bit fearful of a CD like this. It captures a unique band at their most tight and complete so well that it seem like they haven't left much room to grow.
Then again, if you look at Rob Crow's career, there are always new directions-not always linear, at that.
My personal favorite track is "B." It's the one track that sound the most Pinback-esque to me, based on my prior description of why I love this band.
the next step for a band that refuses to stand still.......2003-10-19
"offcell" is probably their most accomplished and realized work to date. the five songs here show everything that is right about pinback: devastating pop hooks, dynamic song structures, and emotional grandeur. pinback has been lucky enough to find and understand their voice early on; the result is that it flows through them effortlessly -- "emo" music in its strictest of definitions.
all of this culminates in "grey machine," the eleven minute opus that, despite its length, remains engaging and heart breaking. at thirty-odd minutes in length, the EP whets the appetite without becoming overbearing. the taste will only make their next studio album that much more enjoyable.
Wow.......2003-10-10
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Some Voices
Pinback Manufacturer: Absolutely Kosher ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006GO9H Release Date: 2002-09-24 |
Customer Reviews:
some might accuse me of hyperbole..........2004-11-03
Only 4 songs? Not a problem........2003-06-29
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.
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Shape to Form
Portico Manufacturer: Hinge Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000JKZ33K |
Product Description
Track listing: 1. Song 10 - 2. Good Ladies Go to Good Graves - 3. Kamouraska - 4. This City is Cold - 5. That's How It Started - 6. A Quiet Life - 7. A Quiet Life - 8. Ryan, You Said It Too Much - 9. This Guitar - 10. Soon
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Jet Packs For Everyone
Argo Manufacturer: Ana-Them Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0002SDV8I Release Date: 2004-08-02 |
Tracks:
- Honeypot Full Of Heartache
- All You Do
- Engine
- Slowly Sinking
- Kicking the Clouds Off
- No Solutions
- 18 and Hammered
- Sometime Tomorrow
- Last Time
- ...
- TV Drains My Energy
Album Description
This CD was produced by Jon Auer and ARGO! The Fender Rhodes plays a dominant role in this CD. This Inie Rock band with that emo style can be compared to the likes of Radiohead (Seattle version) and perhaps even Modest Mouse too (yeah, Seattle). Beautiful vocals and melodies sets ARGO apart from the rest. If that doesn't get you interested, wait until you hear the rhythm section. Music for the College and Alt Radio!Customer Reviews:
There are other CDs.......2007-01-30
Argo is truly a great band. They are serious about music and full of energy. When I first heard them before I released "Jet Packs for Everyone"; I knew instantly these guys were special. My favorite song on this CD is "No Solutions". Scott (former Argo member...lifetime friend) delivers a very warm and thoughtful performance that continues to inspire me.
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Summer in Abaddon
Pinback Manufacturer: Pony Canyon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0002YD83A Release Date: 2004-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Non Photo-Blue
- Sender
- Syracuse
- Bloods on Fire
- Fortress
- This Red Book
- Soaked
- 3X0
- Yellow Ones
- Afk
Album Description
Japanese pressing of the West Coast indie pop act's 2004 album includes one bonus track 'Todo'. P-Vine. 2004.Album Details
Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track: 'todo'.
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Summer in Abaddon
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0006OS69W Release Date: 2005-01-04 |
Album Description
Includes bonus track. Rogue. 2005.Rap Music:
- Rian
- Run Devil Run
- Runaway Brides
- Saint Mary of the Woods
- Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks
- Seal 2
- Second Helping [Original recording remastered]
- Shaking the Tree: 16 Golden Greats [Original recording remastered]
- Sinner
- Smile
Recommended Music:
Praise: 26 Inspirational Songs From the Stars of Gospel [Import]
Mummer [Import] [Original recording remastered]
Las Baladas del Momento en Bachata
Penetrations: sonic explorations in sexuality [Explicit Lyrics]
Original Disco Selection [Import]