★★★★★
Consistency can be a double edged sword. Some will extol it as a virtue, a workman's approach to one's craft, refining and improving a specific template, sound or set of ideas. Others will decry it, arguing it exhibits a lack of imagination, a refusal to take risks, at worst equating it with stagnation and lack of growth. It's a term that has oft been levelled at Pinback throughout their 13 year career - predominately as praise, but occasionally with disdain...
- drownedinsound.com
2012-12-17
★★★★★
Pinback'Information Retrieved' (Temporary Residence) 3.5Recommended Track Sediment Hmm. Something's different. Pinback built their reputation on tension - sure, their Death Cab-esque grooves have always retained a lovelorn charm, but a brittle sense of the jitters made their output feel unnerving and riveting. Here, that gives way to the strident chimes of 'Proceed To Memory', while anthemic closer 'Sediment' is as close as they've come to a lighters-aloft torch song...
- www.the-fly.co.uk
2012-12-07
★★★★★
Zach Smith and Rob Crow don't like rushing things. This is their fifth album since the pair formed in 1998, and their first full-length record for five years. Clocking in at 38 minutes, that equates to approximately 7.6 minutes of Information Retrieved being written each year over the last half decade. Of course, that's not at all how creativity works, nor should it...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Pinback are one for the indie rock purists. In 2012, a band can be more beard-stroking than drum kit-thrashing and include a Mongolian throat-singer where should stand a rhythm guitarist and still be branded 'indie rock.' That's nothing to criticize, but it goes partway to explaining why Information Retrieved sends a nostalgic ripple up my spine...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-11-14
★★★★★
In the five years since Pinback went on vacay, indiephiles finally decided to embrace soft rock. Perish the thought that they aren't acquainted with Pinback, who mastered the art of the quiet and smooth when it was still un-hip to like Fleetwood Mac and The Police. "I feel the cool water rushing over me," Rob Crow croons on "Sherman." Listen to Information--which is expertly manicured but never manufactured--and you will feel the same.
- filtermagazine.com
2012-11-05
★★★★★
If Pinback had released one record and split up, they'd probably have a minor cult following praying for a reunion. What they do is unique and entertaining, and it's not immediately clear why they sound so distinctive; they're not trying hard to be clever, which is refreshing. But now they're on album five, and showing almost no signs of building upon their aesthetics...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-11-05
★★★★★
Pinback takes Ecclesiastes to heart: for core members Zach Smith (Armistead Burwell Smith IV) and Rob Crow, there isn't much new under the sun. What Pinback music was, so Pinback music shall be; forever and ever, amen. Another album of such thoroughly trademarked music would be for some bands a redundancy, but in the hands of these two, it's a confident redoubt of identity...
- www.prefixmag.com
2012-10-25
★★★★★
Pinback, less a band and more a rotating cast of supporting players for Rob Crow and Armistead Burnwell Smith, has always been a group that seems to be on the brink of something great. Their distinct sound, which features signature guitar work that lands somewhere between Built to Spill and Cap n' Jazz, breads individual songs that can split your wig, but its albums always tend to falter under too much of the same thing...
- www.punknews.org
2012-10-22
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Information Sent Everyone remembers that awkward phase of their senior year when their emo friends started putting away their Taking Back Sunday CDs, possibly deleting their Dashboard Confessional mp3s and getting into a sort of transitional funk. Bands that helped cleanse black fingernails and knit scarves were Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, Minus the Bear and, of course, Pinback...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-10-18
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