Sharp Pins - Balloon Balloon Balloon Sharp Pins
Pickup available at Dawson Street
Usually ready within 24-48 hours - Pre-order items available on day of release.
LP - Standard Edition Black Vinyl.
Sharp Pins is the super solid lo-fi noise pop project of talented Chicago musician Kai Slater of Lifeguard and Dwaal Troupe.
"Sharp Pins tingle and jingle and spangle - acupuncture for the soul, threading a much-needed shot of 1965 into the tired hide of today.
Or you could just say they’re a crack in the sky where the sun shines through.
Or you could just say they’re fab!”
- Robyn Hitchcock
"Youth-full popkids of the world, unite!
What other rallying cry may reverberate thru the cavernous anti-scene of today’s Music
Industry?
What other yelp for pains and pleasures may slice thru the barking televisions and
percolating algorithms?
The cold, metallic sting of artifice?
The refusal to trust in one’s heart and voice and twelve lonely strings?
Let the radio flash the answer.
For KAI SLATER (a.k.a.
“SHARP PINS”) has tuned to the radio-freak-uency of the YOUTH UNDERGROUND (the sleeptalking pirateradio of dreams).
With paisley sleeves dragged heavy by his heart, SHARP PINS reintroduces us to a memory buried deep in our veins.
Reinventing a past that never existed.
Carving POP Arty-facts into teenage bedrooms that remind us our BODIES ARE MEANT TO DANCE.
Why must it all “TAKE SO LONG”?
What marks “BALLOON BALLOON BALLOON” as thee “Next Thing,” is the willingness — Nay, obligation — to show today’s teenboppers that Love is not something to hide from.
Rather, there is no truer art than boldly selling one’s heart to the slaughterhaus.
Let the radiowaves carry our secret messages and prayers and swollen tears.
For a song is a mirror — if only we could see clearly!
If there is some higher directive for the music of SHARP PINS, it is thus:
Open yor heart
provide home and hearth for the youth-phonetics
of neu L-U-V and dreams three sizes too big
wipe away yor tears
remember to dance is to revolt
and within each chest is a voice
TODAY is the time
YOUTH REVOLUTION NOW!"
- Johnson Rockstar (a.k.a Otis Johnson)
Track List
1. Popafangout
2. I Don't Have The Heart
3. I Could Find Out
4. Queen of Globes and Mirrors
5. (I Wanna) Be Your Girl
6. Gonna Learn To Crawl
7. Balloon 1
8. I Don't Adore-Youo
9. All the Prefabs
10. Talking In Your Sleep
11. Fall In Love Again
12. Serene Haus of Hair
13. (In A While) You'll Be Mine
14. Balloon 2
15. Ex-Priest / In a Hole of a Home
16. Takes So Long
17. Stop to Say Hello
18. All The Shops and Stores Are Closing Now
19. Maria Don't
20. Crown of Thorns
21. Balloon 3
Product information
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