Pyncher share new single ‘Back To The Country’
Beloved Manchester quartet Pyncher have finally released their latest garage-rock EP, Every Town Needs a Stranger, alongside their latest single, ‘Back To The Country’.
As a longtime fan of the band, the tightness and maturity of the new track is astounding. Still, this is murky, shaking noise, addictive, and homegrown. Having taken some time away, Pyncher’s sound has a new vision, and the vision is staring right back at us, daring us to jump.
The eight-song EP captures, in their own word, the “youth, confusion, finding your way, starting to write music without any idea of what we were doing”, and of four people together rallying as one: “The core of every song is just the four of us doing our parts. Pyncher is a family, it’s a very close-knit group, and the way the EP turns out hopefully reflects that.”
Across the single, ‘Every Town Needs a Stranger’, there are echoes of the grizzly Opus Kink, the DIY roughness of TSSFU, the relatable lyricism of Home Counties, and a little of that British charm reserved for the likes of Sports Team. The tune pops in all the right places, circling a chorus that seems like an amalgamation of all the best of British alternative music, a chorus that would get even the most stoic of the Radio 6 dads nodding their heads.
On the track, vocalist Sam Blakeley details the all-too-familiar metropolis malaise of youth in a big city. “I don’t know why you’re so surprised / That everybody’s wearing new eyes / We all see quite differently when there’s nothing inside.”
It’s ‘Hippopotamus Boy’, though, that might just be their most impressive offering on the EP. It has sickly, charged vocals, thrashing guitars, and an underground scuzz that makes it sexy and irresistible in the way that Brooklyn dive bars, or ripped red tights and a lightly moulding maraschino cherry, might be. Pyncher undoubtedly deserve to be on your radar.
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