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Pinact
The Part That No One Knows

Album US 2017 on Kanine Records label
Rock (Alternative Rock, Indie Rock)

Black vinyl version limited to 500 copies. Pinact is back with their sophomore album, Corrie Gillies (vocals, guitar), Lewis Reynolds (drums) were already a frantic on-stage force, before they added Jon Arbuthnott (bass) to bring out the razor-sharp melodies and unapologetically fuzzy guitars. The Part That No One Knows, a much-anticipated follow-up to 2014’s excellent debut, Stand Still and Rot, delivers on all fronts – the trio offers hooks by the dozen, artillery-style drumming and perfectly synchronised guitar interplay. Written and recorded in Glasgow, the Scottish Highlands and London, Pinact’s approach to album 2 was noticeably different. “We intentionally holed ourselves up in the Highlands to focus on bringing out the melodies, and I think that shows,” Gillies explains. The fruits of a frozen Northern labour are evident in anthemic efforts like ‘Oh’, an immediate sing-along, and ‘Seams’, which sees the singer take on challenging vocal parts with consummate ease. In the early writing stages of the writing process the band went on a trip to Leeds to see The Cribs; the influence is notable, while fans of Dinosaur Jr., The Breeders and Weezer will find a lot to nod along to in The Part That No One Knows. However, Pinact’s brand of pop- infused rock is an entity unto itself: “I purposefully didn’t listen to other music while writing and recording, I get lost in my own world”, Gillies says, and the lyricism makes this very clear: ‘Regrettable Thrill’ for example lends more to a bleakly Scottish sense of humour and world-weariness that could only be Gillies, as opposed to American rock bands. "Pinact give newfound fans of the '90s a band to champion as their own" ALL MUSIC "Sugary pop songs played like fast, shambolic punk songs" BROOKLYN VEGAN "Pinact channel their aggression into a melodic but heavy sound" NME "Fuzzy antidotes pouring out from the seams" DIY

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