Pictured: A back alley mugging? Or Pinback?
When Pinback released Summer in Abbadon in 2004, I read an interview with songwriters Zach Smith and Rob Crow about how it is that they come about their sound. Unlike most musicians, they didn’t list off the favorite films or bands, they pointed to their ordinary, everyday lives. Both are well into their thirties, both had office jobs and families to take care of, and both pointed to the monotony of life in confined spaces as the main influence. What I’m trying to say is, they have very ordinary lives. Neither paid much attention to current trends or fashions, they were just very well drenched in themselves.
After that interview I always heard Pinback in the same way. Very cubically, mathematically. There are no bends or twists in their songs, just very sharp corners, and I think somewhere in the music there’s an unwillingness to be that way. I feel like a lot of businessmen with dreams of one day telling off their bosses would relate to a Pinback album. That’s probably not the way Smith and Crow would like to be promoted (no pun intended), but it definitely works, and it works very well.
Barnes is a nice, depressing little song off of their new album Autumn of the Seraphs.
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