PINCH POINTS – Lounge

Muito felizes por recebermos uma das nossas bandas preferidas dos últimos anos, directos da Austrália para o Lounge, os maravilhosos PINCH POINTS!

PINCH POINTS burst forth from the Melbourne underground with their 2018 debut EP Mechanical Injury, which was one of four Australian releases included in Bandcamp’s ‘Best 100 releases of 2018’. Soon after they released their debut LP Moving Parts, and were hailed by Double J as “the sharpest new band in the country” and Music Victoria’s Best Breakthrough Act of 2020. The band toured with Tropical Fuck Storm, supported Amyl and the Sniffers, Kikagaku Moyo, Viagra Boys, RVG and Cash Savage, and opened 2020’s Golden Plains to a packed amphitheatre. The band released their 2022 album Process to worldwide acclaim, through Mistletone (AU/NZ), Exploding In Sound (US), and Erste Theke Tontraeger (EU), then toured throughout EU/UK, and supported IDLES on all their Australian tour dates. Process won Music Victoria’s Best Rock/Punk work, was nominated for the Australia Music Prize, and was included in NME’s best 25 Australian albums of the year.

In 2021 the band recorded Process with Anna Laverty (Courtney Barnett, Nick Cave, The Peep Tempel), taking a momentous leap forward into full-force post-punk empowerment. Process by Pinch Points melds catchy cultural critique with a hard-hitting personal expression of empathy and shared grief. A true collaboration, finding consensus from the experiences of four individual humans, Pinch Points embody music-making as an act of friendship and community, upholding the band’s shared belief in the music scene as a real-life platform for connection, strength and solidarity. The first two singles shared from the album, “Am I Okay?” and “Reasons to be Anxious”, both resonate strongly with the current shaky mental health state of the nation. “Look after yourself for a change”, the band sing on “Am I Okay?”; “I know the world is f*cking crap / But you didn’t cause that / So give yourself a hug.” The compassionate lyrics embody the album’s theme of the endemic anxiety and uncertainty of our times, with an all-important call to be kind to yourself.

The album’s 10 songs engage with the fractures in so-called ‘Australia’ – from catastrophic bushfires, gendered violence, mental health struggles to First Nations incarceration and deaths in custody — with clear-eyed directness, along with an uncommon nuance and empathy.

PINCH POINTS are Acacia Coates, Adam Smith, Jordan Oakley and Isabella Orsini.
Nothing is normal — but PINCH POINTS are here.