Pens - Hey Friend, What You Doing?

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5...according to our Brian on Thu 24 Sep, 2009.

Well if I don't get my weekly buzz of clattering ladies bashing out scuzzy no-wave & DIY indie rock then I may as well just start listening to the execrable Kid Harpoon & thus, my world would be such an empty, hideous place! Pens are here to make my life much more bearable with their fabulous debut album bursting to the seams with scratchy, primal lo-fi punk anthems whose brittle melodies make my hairs strand on end and my teeth grind with ecstasy! They're the real discordant deal too, so not exactly technically proficient but guaranteed they'd have you moshing like crazy at absolutely any scruff hole they played. Somewhere between the distorted cassette overload of the Siltbreeze lot ala Times New Viking, Babes in Toyland, Riot Grrrl & the classic off-kilter new wavisms of The Raincoats & Liliput, these minute tribal fuzzballs are perilously addictive and stick in your head like chewing gum in hair. This is the true gnashing feral sound of my new genre Nibblerock (tm). Hey Friend is on CD/LP via De Stijl.

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Debut album from London’s Pens, a female three piece that give you
26 minutes of infectious scuzzy-pop-punk.

“Nice bit of scuzz rock inhabiting the same
segment of the audiosphere as Times New Viking
and Wavves. Pens are a bit more lo fi than the
two aforementioned bands - if that’s possible -
and a bit easier on the ears. And a bit Vivian
Girls” - Artrocker, “Amazingly scuzzy, scrappy,
near-disaster pop” - Dazed Digital, “Our new
favourite all-girl lo-fi garage pop has been
spreading fun and awesomeness throughout the
capital” - pinglewood blog, “revolution grrrlstyle”

Tracklisting:

Horsies * I Sing Just For You * High In The Cinema * Networking *
Fukufu*kinfu*k * I Heart U * Cry Baby * Freddy *
Yeah Baby I’ll Take You To Bagel Town * Hide The Kids *
Sally Ain’t Nobody * Hate Your Calendar * Know About Me