Shearing Pinx “Caves” 7″ (DNT003) (digital)

20th anniversary digital reissue! First released in August 2006 on 7″ vinyl. Below is the original blurb and a couple reviews.

“Oh-oh-oh! Yes! Yes! This is what I’ve been waiting for for so long: a band I love enough to release vinyl by. And this is that band, Shearing Pinx They’re sort of like, a no-wave influenced, totally shred-tastic group of three bandits from Vancouver, British Columbia. I was lucking enough to see them not once, but TWICE last week in Los Angeles, which, unfortunetly was not the release show, due to delays at the plant. But here it is: A four-song 7″ at 33rpm on transparent-green vinyl with green labels in silk-screened covers, artwork by the Pinks themselves. It’s a limited edition, of 400, hand-numbered. Git ’em while they’re hot, because nearly half are already gone, thanks to some sweet stores and distros. Enjoy!”

Reviews:

“Make way for the specific and somewhat imposing presence of Vancouver’s Shearing Pinx, cutting ties with all music since Sonic Youth in ’83 and kicking up a mighty cloud of clattery guitar racket. Displaying quite a bit of punk-alley abandon and anti-heroic anthem to go with the Thurston/Lee soundclash, the trio bashes away at these mostly longer songs with patient precision, muddled by a lo-fi, redline quality to dirty things up.” – Dusted Magazine

“For 7 inches, Shearing Pinx play an energetic no-wave with loudspeaker vocals and jangly-as-hell guitars, each side of the record featuring one full song and a shorter, more abstract noise piece made of feedback: “Caves” on side A recalls the smart-alecky post-punk of The Monorchid though more melodic, with singer Nic huffing well below Chris Thomson’s piercing decibel; on the reverse, “Chaos Patent” leans toward the tangled surf-rock of mid-era Sonic Youth, then switches into a chugging rhythm with staggered guitars like a grungier version of late-90s indie-boppers Tanner or Mocket. Both tracks are rousing and well-executed, as are their brief appendices; to great nostalgia, DNT presents ‘Caves’ in classic indie form, even including a flyer for one of the band’s shows (now long past). Transparent-green vinyl comes in a three-color screened sleeve with inserts, 400 copies made. Very nice!” – Animal Psi (animalpsi.com)