{"product_id":"sharp-pins-balloon-balloon-balloon","title":"Sharp Pins - Balloon Balloon Balloon","description":"\u003cp\u003eLP - Standard Edition Black Vinyl.\u003cbr\u003eSharp Pins is the super solid lo-fi noise pop project of talented Chicago musician Kai Slater of Lifeguard and Dwaal Troupe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp Pins tingle and jingle and spangle - acupuncture for the soul, threading a much-needed shot of 1965 into the tired hide of today.\u003cbr\u003eOr you could just say they’re a crack in the sky where the sun shines through.\u003cbr\u003eOr you could just say they’re fab!”\u003cbr\u003e- Robyn Hitchcock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Youth-full popkids of the world, unite!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat other rallying cry may reverberate thru the cavernous anti-scene of today’s Music\u003cbr\u003eIndustry?\u003cbr\u003eWhat other yelp for pains and pleasures may slice thru the barking televisions and\u003cbr\u003epercolating algorithms?\u003cbr\u003eThe cold, metallic sting of artifice?\u003cbr\u003eThe refusal to trust in one’s heart and voice and twelve lonely strings?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet the radio flash the answer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor KAI SLATER (a.k.a.\u003cbr\u003e“SHARP PINS”) has tuned to the radio-freak-uency of the YOUTH UNDERGROUND (the sleeptalking pirateradio of dreams).\u003cbr\u003eWith paisley sleeves dragged heavy by his heart, SHARP PINS reintroduces us to a memory buried deep in our veins.\u003cbr\u003eReinventing a past that never existed.\u003cbr\u003eCarving POP Arty-facts into teenage bedrooms that remind us our BODIES ARE MEANT TO DANCE.\u003cbr\u003eWhy must it all “TAKE SO LONG”?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003eRather, there is no truer art than boldly selling one’s heart to the slaughterhaus.\u003cbr\u003eLet the radiowaves carry our secret messages and prayers and swollen tears.\u003cbr\u003eFor a song is a mirror — if only we could see clearly!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf there is some higher directive for the music of SHARP PINS, it is thus:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpen yor heart\u003cbr\u003eprovide home and hearth for the youth-phonetics\u003cbr\u003eof neu L-U-V and dreams three sizes too big\u003cbr\u003ewipe away yor tears\u003cbr\u003eremember to dance is to revolt\u003cbr\u003eand within each chest is a voice\u003cbr\u003eTODAY is the time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYOUTH REVOLUTION NOW!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Johnson Rockstar (a.k.a Otis Johnson)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"K RECORDS","offers":[{"title":"Standard Edition Black Vinyl","offer_id":53206497231175,"sku":"TRI-67332","price":32.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":53206497362247,"sku":"TRI-67333","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/a82f8c21fd1de1da1506ede208dbf258_b2a11761-9566-4e58-a025-733cc1e5b2bc.jpg?v=1769372525","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/sharp-pins-balloon-balloon-balloon","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}