{"id":15751,"date":"2021-06-19T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15751"},"modified":"2021-06-17T09:26:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T09:26:18","slug":"needles-pins-needles-pins-dirt-cult-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=15751","title":{"rendered":"Needles\/Pins – ‘Needles\/Pins’ (Dirt Cult Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Somewhere between The Hold Steady and The Replacements or Soul Asylum and Husker Du with just enough rough assed Buffalo Tom slung in for good measure.\u00a0 Vancouver’s Needles\/Pins dish up a tasty din. With some sumptuous melodies wrapped in barbed wire overdrive and last orders vocals, this album just keeps giving, play after play.\u00a0 Subtle yet thoroughly addictive.\u00a0 Released via\u00a0Dirt Cult Records<\/strong>\u00a0. Ahead of the release\u00a0Needles\/\/Pins<\/strong>\u00a0revealed the lead single \u2018A Rather Strained Apologetic<\/strong>\u2018 and already I was sold but it was merely a glimpse into what was to come.\u00a0 Sometimes you just want a record to not be clever or sing songs about everybody’s pandemic or chuck in a token ballad Needles\/\/Pins are that band from top to bottom they just wanna cut some rug and just turn the amps up and rock out.<\/p>\n

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This isn’t Needles\/\/Pins\u2019 first time out mind it’s their fourth album. From the surging rush of opener \u2018Woe Is Us\u2019 this record just oozes class.\u00a0 ‘Of Things Best Left To Chance’ is like a Nirvana melody on top of a steady beat whilst the guitars go all Bob Stinson and Westerberg at their best.\u00a0 It’s a really unapologetic album that’s just kicking back and dishing out top tunes aplenty and if you’re in then cool, jump on board. If it’s not polished enough then just move on.\u00a0 \u2018Winnipeg \u201803\u2019 has a cool organ honking away in the background just enough to layer a rather splendid melody on the vocals that screams warm beer on a hot afternoon.<\/p>\n

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‘Gleamer’ is a smouldering monster that builds over its short existence and those backing vocals are caveman-like and primal as the song just fades away into the distance. Splendid stuff.\u00a0 the songs are all pretty much under three minutes and a lot of them are sub-two minutes which is just long enough ‘I Was Just Underjoted If That’s A Word’ is a great example as the song build to a cacophony of primal screams on top of swirling organs and a steady pounding beat that falls away to make room for the uptempo ‘Baleful’ and ‘Grow’ before signing off with the\u00a0anthemic closer \u2018The Tyranny Of Comforts\u2019, then were done.\u00a0 dust yourself down take a throat sweet catch forty winks then go back in for another swing but this time turn it up some more.<\/p>\n

The raw vocal delivery is the perfect ying for the power-pop yang and it’s all tied together beautifully by the rough you up guitar tones.\u00a0 This is something of an onion album (no it doesn’t make you weep) its got layers and layers going on and the next is more interesting as the last.\u00a0 Top tunes thats a given, Top Bloody Tunes!<\/span><\/p>\n