Blog: SoundsXP

This is hardcore, but not as you'd imagine it. For one, there's a flute on the intro and outro! Pink Eyes' volcanic grumble of a voice might suggest otherwise but the songs are really songs, not blasts of sound, guitars shimmy and twist as well as drive forward and the lyrics - when you make them out – display serious thought (contempt for organised religion on 'Son The Father', wonder at the chemical processes that created us on 'The Chemistry of Common Life'). It constantly surprises: Pink Eyes' singing is counterpointed and softened by superb [...]