Blog: One Sweet Song

I think the San Diego-based band Pinback is highly under buzzed and underrated. Their compositions are brimming with pleasantly tangled melodies and well-written lyrics. The core of the band are singer-songwriters Armistead Burwell Smith IV and Rob Crow. Smith once described his music as "…pretty with an edge? I don't necessarily know how to explain it. I like dark and brooding tones. I don't ever want my music to get too pretty. I like it to have an underlying rawness. Sugar coating on the top, evil underneath." The music definitely has an edge, but it's [...]

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