Pynch unveil "Tin Foil" single from debut album, Howling at a Concrete Moon, out 14th April + UK tour

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Share new single "Tin Foil" - listen and watch the video here

Debut album, Howling at a Concrete Moon out 14th April on Chillburn Recordings

UK and European Tour Dates this April/May

With their debut album, Howling at a Concrete Moon due 14th April, Pynch share another cut from the record with new single "Tin Foil".

Of "Tin Foil", band leader Spencer Enock shares: "When we play live I always jokingly introduce 'Tin Foil' as being about conspiracy theories but really, I think it’s about how complex and overwhelming the modern world can be.  

 
It feels like we’ve been in one form of crisis or another for my entire adult life and this song is about our over-exposure to that level of stimulation and the need to escape it all and 'get lost forever.

It's definitely one of our most upbeat and irreverent song so it feels right to be releasing it at the beginning of spring and just before the album comes out".

Watch the video below, directed by Spencer and Scott Enock...

Pynch - Tin Foil
https://youtu.be/vFauOcvkaHU

Co-produced by Andy Ramsay of Stereolab, Howling at a Concrete Moon is an album that discusses both the personal and political, exploring what it has felt like to be young and coming of age in post-austerity Britain. 

Live Dates:
 

Thurs 20th April - Where Else, Margate
Fri 21st April - Moth Club, London
Sat 22nd April - Hope and Ruin, Brighton
Sun 23rd April - Heartbreakers, Southampton
Weds 26th April - The Adelphi, Hull
Thurs 27th April - The Castle Hotel, Manchester
Fri 28th April - The Crofters Rights, Bristol
Sat 6th May - L’International, Paris
Fri 12th May - V11, Rotterdam
 

Previous Praise for Pynch:

"It's bittersweet and very catchy jangly guitar pop that sounds good in any era.” - Brooklyn Vegan

"Matching glacial, Beach Fossils or DIIV style guitar lines to twinkling electronics, it's akin to LCD Soundsystem if they were linked to Sarah Records." - Clash Magazine 

"MGMT-inspired sunshiney tones" - The Line Of Best Fit
 

"Its combination of sparkling guitar melancholy and luscious synth is delightful" - The Guardian

"I love everything about it. I love the lyrics and the music and I know every single word to it. I love playing it really loudly and singing along" Ela Minus (Domino Records) on BBC Radio 1

Pynch are a true 21st century DIY band that have built a dedicated global fanbase from a handful of self-released singles through a combination of tenacity, wistful lo-fi and life affirming lyricism. From working with Dan Carey and Speedy Wunderground through a speculative demo submission (He simply replied “I fucking love this”), to setting up their own label and touring the UK and Europe in a Skoda Fabia, the band have been on somewhat of an indie-rock odyssey in their first few years together. Now set to release their debut album, Howling at a Concrete Moon, Pynch are ready to deliver their full artistic statement and make good on the promise of their early singles.
 
Sonically, Pynch serve up a heady concoction of motorik beats (Julianna Hopkins), driving basslines (Scott Enock), soaring guitars (Spencer Enock) and melancholic synths (James Rees) to create a sound that is steeped in indie and electronic history yet still vitally present. Their music draws on dreampop, britpop, indietronica and post-punk to deliver dramatic arrangements filtered through their distinctive lo-fi aesthetic. Their fondness for home-recording and sonic experimentation shine throughout the record, as glitchy synth textures regularly mingle with distorted guitars over the enduring tick of a drum machine.
 
Though clearly concerned with the world around him, Spencer's observations on society and the human condition are often delivered in the disarmingly humorous way that has now become a key feature of the band’s identity. This blurring between cynicism and sincerity runs throughout the record, traversing noughties nostalgia ("2009"), metropolitan malaise ("The City") and lost love ("Karaoke"), with heartfelt reflections often set side by side with wry social commentary. In penultimate track, "London", Spencer addresses living through financial and housing crises: the disappointment of a generation is evoked and the stark realities of being young in austerity Britain are laid bare.

“My overarching concept for the album was to try and capture my experience of what it has felt like to be young and living in Britain at this particular point in history” Spencer explains. ”I’ve tried to take my inner search for meaning and set it against the strange cultural and economic landscape that we find ourselves in”. These themes are apparent throughout the album, as Spencer grapples with existentialism and the pursuit of dreams within a doomer cityscape filled with pervasive advertising, market crashes and downloadable souls."

To record the album, the band enlisted Andy Ramsay of Stereolab to co-produce alongside Spencer and augment his home recordings. They worked together across ten intense days at his studio in Bermondsey at the start of 2022, recording an array of material for the album with the tongue-in-cheek mantra of ‘any old shit will do’ powering them through. “Working with Andy on the album was such a fun experience” Spencer says. “We managed to get so much done and were laughing pretty much the entire time. He had a lot of creative ideas and helped us record things that would have been impossible for us to do at home.” The album was then mixed by Tom Carmichael (Porridge Radio/Matt Maltese) over in Margate where Spencer and Scott both went to school.

Throughout the record, Spencer’s lyrics combine a yearning for meaning with dry observations about pop-culture, conspiracies and McDonalds; juxtaposing the celestial with the everyday, to the tune of a slacker Gameboy rhapsody.
 
“Working on this project and album has really been my life’s work so far so it’s scary but also a big relief to finally be able to let it go and share it with the world”, Spencer says of the upcoming release. “We’re completely independent so it’s taken patience and a lot of hard work to get to this point but it’s been a wonderful journey”.
 
Pynch have certainly been on a journey and it’s plain to see that they have done things their own way. Since forming at university, they have played over a hundred shows around the UK and Europe, joined the Libertines on tour, released their debut single on Speedy Wunderground, amassed 2 million streams on a song recorded with just an SM57 and received support from The Guardian, The Telegraph, Paste Magazine, So Young and NME. On Howling at a Concrete Moon, they have followed through on their creative vision and delivered ten stunning tracks that offer a compelling snapshot of what it is to be young and adrift at this strange junction of history. 

Preorder:
https://pynch.bandcamp.com/

Tracklist:

Haven’t Lived a Day
Disco Lights
Tin Foil
Maybe
2009
The City (Part 2)
The City (Part 1)
Karaoke
London
Somebody Else


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