Pressure Pin

Pressure Pin’s new mini-album, Polyurethane, harnesses the synthetic malfunction of modern urban decay into frantic spasmic echoes from our collective present. This sophomore EP from the Montréal-based egg/art punk outfit is packed with speedy tempos and unnatural rhythms consumed by dissonant synthesizers and fuzzed-out guitar leads.

Through cryptic lyrics and acidic metaphors, singer-songwriter Kenny Smith mimics the incoherency of our surroundings. Songs from Polyurethane are vaguely about being frustrated, or shocked by the total whiplash of present-day relationships and living situations. Nothing is drawn upon too obviously, but it’s all in there: the harsh reality and constant agitation, the lack of glamour that arises from being a lower-class young person living in a city, technology and the dividing effect it has on our culture, general frustration with 21st century life.

Produced alongside Smith’s bandmate in La Sécurité, Félix Bélisle a.k.a. Standard Emmanuel, and featuring saxophone by Choses Sauvages’ Marc-Antoine Barbier as well as artworks from Mononegatives, Polyurethane (October 4th, 2024 via Mothland & Under the Gun Records) by Pressure Pin is all at once spastic and technical, sardonic and poetic; a brash if earnest sonic essay effortlessly amalgamating the many offshoots of punk music.