Following up 2019’s “Sisters & Brothers” album,
new release exchanges brown leather for black. RIYL: Fantastic Negrito,
Goodbye June,
Joyous Wolf.
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The Pinx (L-R): Adam
McIntyre, Chance McColl, Cayce
Buttrey, Charles Wiles. Photo
credit: @_rexway.
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“I was just straight-up shooting for The Hellacopters and Led Zeppelin. I’m a blues guitarist in
a rock band,” says Adam McIntyre of
Atlanta-based band, The Pinx.
McIntyre’s declaration amounts to an intriguing version of the
trademark dueling guitar sound of The
Pinx, as last heard on its third album Sisters & Brothers, in 2019.
This time the duels draw blood on “It’s
Electric,” the first single from the band’s upcoming “Electric!” EP, out Aug. 14th.
Hear
it now at Spill Magazine or at
the link below.
“We deliberately created the most lean, energetic rock
guitar fest that Chance (McColl,
Lead Guitar and Vocals) and I could muster,” McIntyre says. “Chuck (Wiles,
Bass and Backing Vocals) and Cayce
(Buttrey, Drums and Backing Vocals) brought the thunder to our lightning
and I feel like my singing on this EP puts my best rock foot forward. My solos
are some of the favorites I’ve ever recorded, too.”
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The Pinx | In The Press
“Authentic tribute to classic American rock &
roll.” — PASTE
“Perfect soundtrack for a dangerously reckless
summer.” — Classic Rock Magazine
“Would make Alex Chilton proud.” — FLOOD
“Affecting and exhilarating.” — Creative Loafing
“Elegance and chaos.” — Glide Magazine
“Shakes the surrounding geography.” — The Southern Sounding
“The players can rip, and rip righteously.” — Minneapolis City Pages
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The Pinx
“Electric!” EP
Aug. 14th, 2020
(S/R)
Track Listing:
01. Victimless Crime
02. Bad Behavior
03. Hammer of The Dogs
04. It’s Electric
(STREAM)
05. See You Later
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About | The Pinx
“I’m reluctant to ever pick up a slide again,” says Adam
McIntyre of The Pinx about his artistic reaction to the band’s previous
release, 2019’s Sisters & Brothers. This time out, the
trademark guitar duels of McIntyre
and bandmate Chance McColl draw
blood. But, instead of reading about it, just
listen to “Electric!,”
scheduled for release on Aug. 14th.
It’s right there where the sex meets the road. An EP in
length only, this thing will wear you out in five quick numbers.
“We deliberately created the most lean, energetic rock
guitar fest that Chance (McColl, Lead Guitar
and Vocals) and I could muster,” McIntyre says. “Chuck
(Wiles, Bass and Backing Vocals) and Cayce (Buttrey,
Drums and Backing Vocals) brought the thunder to our lightning and I feel like
my singing on this EP puts my best rock foot forward. My solos are some of the
favorites I’ve ever recorded, too.”
Comparing the cover art of the single ‘It’s
Electric’ to the band’s previous LP, McIntyre offers
a perfect analogy: “‘It’s Electric’ is the black leather
jacket to the brown leather jacket of Sisters & Brothers.”
Hey, it’s all cow, and McIntyre isn’t
disavowing his last record, he might just feel a bit over having his sound
pigeonholed. It’s only natural, considering the varied sonic paths he has
traveled this year since the onset of the pandemic.
In just the first half of 2020, McIntyre
has written and recorded three
albums of solo material with varying styles and concepts. He’s a blues
guitarist when he’s not in a rock band, too, as the first of these records The
Devil Got My Soul! shows. The third, as-yet-unreleased album “will
largely be about becoming nobody,” McIntyre recently told
hometown paper Creative Loafing, and is “based on Ram
Dass’s talks on ego vs. identity vs. the soul.”
Even with all of this seemingly unending solo
music-making going on, McIntyre is also in the midst of
writing the fourth full-length Pinx album, which will likely
be on the horizon soon if the process for “Electric!” is any
indication.
“I just sat down and wrote this record with Chance
when it came time,” he says. “All the music and lyrics were there within a few
weeks. Nobody really told anybody else what to play, everyone knew what to do.”
The EP’s release on Aug. 14th will be
preceded by “It’s Electric” on July 17th and
a burn-your-fingers-to-the-bone scorcher “Hammer of the Dogs”
on July 31st, the obvious Zep reference being
something McIntyre is fine with copping to.
“I figured if Greta Van Fleet can so
transparently graft Led Zeppelin onto their songs, I should be
able to get away with it.”
Just don’t ask this dude to pick up a slide in the
near future.
“Electric!” the latest EP by Atlanta-based rock band The Pinx
arrives on Aug. 14th, preceded by “It’s Electric,” out now and “Hammer of the Dogs”
on July 31st. Adam
McIntyre of The Pinx is
available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom
at Fanatic for more information.
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