From The Pinpricks' third EP 'RITUALS'!
Available on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, e.t.c.
www.thepinpricks.de

Over 130,000 streams on Spotify in over 500 playlists, a.o in the Spotify Rock Rotation Playlist and over 150,000 plays on Youtube, prove how eagerly awaited the 3rd EP Rituals was. The EP was announced in the biggest German rock magazine Rock Hard, among others. The debut album is planned for 2022.

Rituals

Bait

Rainmaker

Ritual

2018 erschien die Debüt EP „Hunger“, die in den Boogie Park Studios Hamburg von Alex Henke
aufgenommen wurde, mit der sie in kürzester Zeit 20.000 Streams auf Spotify und 50.000 Streams
auf YouTube erreichten.
Glaubt man den sechs Stücken, ist die Band noch lange nicht am Ende ihrer Reise angekommen.

Hunger

You Don't

Im März 2020 erschien der „Hunger“ Nachfolger „Bait“.
Die erste Single „Cast off Your Shadow” diente als Vorbote und bewies eindrucksvoll, welch
großen Schritt die Band in den letzten zwei Jahren gemacht hat.
Acht Songs mit drei Musikvideos lassen aufhorchen. So schreibt Helder Martins von Guitar
Scream:
„Mit knackigen und powervollen Gitarrenriffs mit Raum für Tagträume und Soli von Ronja, die sie
stimmlich ebenso kräftig und scharf begleiten und dabei ihre ganze Fähigkeit als große
Gitarrenkünstlerin zeigt.
Am Ende des Hörens dieses Albums hatten wir das Gefühl, dass wir einen Boxkampf hinter uns
hatten, bei dem wir in den Arsch getreten wurden und uns ein wenig entspannen
müssen...EXZELLENT!“

Paintless

Million Pieces

Voices

Get Out

Cast Off Your Shadow

2018 erschien die Debüt EP „Hunger“, die in den Boogie Park Studios Hamburg von Alex Henke aufgenommen wurde, mit der sie in kürzester Zeit 20.000 Streams auf Spotify und 50.000 Streams auf YouTube erreichten.
Glaubt man den sechs Stücken, ist die Band noch lange nicht am Ende ihrer Reise angekommen.

Marionette

Sweet Pain

Into the Light

The Pinpricks
„This Stuff Is Poison“

Damn: What lustful banging The Pinpricks are delivering on their programmatically titled debut album „This Stuff Is Poison“! Punk and garage rock, indie and a "Touch of 80s wave" mix, rough heavy moments and catchy hook fireworks to songs that, once heard, you won't soon forget. Because The Pinpricks, who - as one might think in view of the internationality of this record - come neither from London nor from New York, but from Kiel in northern Germany, have bundled all their strengths and made a record that virtuously balance the fine line between „contemporary“ and „timeless“.
The facts in short: The Pinpricks were a solid trio for a long time, but currently they see themselves as a duo, which, however, can fall back on well-trained drummers for the live concerts. The duo consists of singer/guitarist Ronja Kaminsky and her bass playing partner Nils Degenhardt and was formed in 2018. Since then, three EPs have been released: „Hunger“ (2018), „Bait“ (2020) and „Rituals“ (2021), the songs of which currently have more than 350,000 streams on Spotify and more than 300,000 plays on YouTube. They have played well over 100 shows so far, from small club concerts to gigs at Wacken Open Air and the Open Flair Festival; they shared the stage with the likes of Mando Diao and Thundermother; they have been invited to podcasts between Boston and Los Angeles, Egypt and Portugal and - especially when you consider that the band has organized and pushed everything themselves so far - look to an already amazingly international fan base.
And now "This Stuff Is Poison" - a title like an announcement. But well: A poison that tastes damn wholesome. And as mentioned, many different taste nuances are available. „We deliberately wanted to have this 80s and 90s sound on our album,“ explains Ronja. „At the same time, of course, we're still influenced by our earlier stuff, which was more punk and garage rock. But you can't say that we had a concrete plan to make an album that was as multifaceted and rich in style as possible. After all, you can never really influence where creativity takes you.”
At least, their creativity and the way to a good song is very broad. Sometimes it's a bass riff that Nils wrote and that they are tinkering with, sometimes it's a specific song by another band that they take as a guide and say: That's where we want to go. „And vice versa,“ laughs Ronja: „Sometimes you have a song that is constantly evolving, and in the end it suddenly sounds like a song that you like very much, but that you didn't even have on your radar as an inspiration.“ The references can also be very diverse, the two add: Royal Blood is certainly a band that can be guessed as an inspiration in the context of The Pinpricks; but there are also bands like Muse, Placebo, Blondie or Pretty Reckless. „Ultimately, we don't want to copy anyone, we just want to do our very own thing,“ says Ronja.
For the album, compared to the three previous EPs, the two placed much more value on sound issues - it should be dry and powerful, but still well produced. A lot was tried out and discarded in the Boogie Park Studios in Hamburg together with their producer Alex Henke. „With the EPs, we just didn't have the time or money to work on those really important details enough,“ they explain. „We received funding from Initiative Musik for the album, and that helped enormously to bring the sound of the band and each individual song a step forward and really work out 'our' sound. But the same applies to the lyrics, the song structures and all other details.”
There are songs on the album, some of which went through extremely long processes, some of which were rewritten up to five times before they fit. On the other hand, there are also eruptive outbursts of spontaneous creativity, where there was only one night between the first idea for a song and the more or less finished recording. Regarding the lyrics, they tried to be more focused, to make it absolutely clear to the listener what their point of view or their stance is. Be it a party song, be it personal experiences or even more important topics such as the current war in Ukraine: This time it should be specific.
Ronja and Nils worked concentrated on this record for two years, and you can hear it: „This Stuff Is Poison“ is as catchy as it is attacking, it's aggressive and then hit-loving again, it's brute and yet lovingly decorated, it's to the point, but also like to get out of hand - where it is appropriate. „In general, it was very important to us that the album reflects well how we sound live. It's in the nature of things that you always have to look: What's going on with three instruments? What goes parallel on guitar and vocals? How can this be implemented live? We paid close attention to that,” explains Nils.
The singing - and that brings us back to the beginning of this text, to this almost obsessive-looking, brilliant rubble that is inherent in their songs - is objectively considered the culmination of this already very good album: Ronja really gets everything out of herself. The many years with dozens of other musicians pay off here, because meanwhile she simply knows how to use her personality and musicality in an optimal way and also to „shoot“ with her voice to the maximum. As the press wrote before: „She seems like a bastard daughter of Janis Joplin and Sheryl Crow. (...) Her grainy vocals and mesmerizing guitar solos turn every song into an instant hit.“
Let's take a look at the first pre-single „Anyway“, a song with a wonderful self-mockery: „As a band you always get a thousand tips on how to do something, that you should sing in German or whatever. Our answer is: Yo, thanks for your hints, but we'll do it the way we want“ - and this song sounds just as powerful, unique and full of relish. And also North German. Because, according to Ronja: „I like it when people simply say straight out what moves them, because I am like that myself. And that's exactly the feeling that our music, and especially this song, should convey.“ Or „Sugar K“, according to The Pinpricks, perhaps the most powerful song on the album - and therefore also an urgent first listening tip: It is the result of one of those intuitively productive moments where everything was in the right place in no time at all. And if you condense such songs out of nowhere into such an oppressive studio recording, you immediately understand: The Pinpricks have come to stay.

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