Marking over a decade of their celebrated post-punk sound, Manchester four-piece PINS return today with energetic new single ‘All Over’ and announce the release of their fourth album If I’m Alive Now, Then I Was Dead released on February 12 via Haus of PINS.
PINS – friends Faith Vern, Lois MacDonald, Kyoko Swan and Abbi Phillips – released their album Girls Like Us in 2013, followed by the acclaimed Wild Nights in 2015, which marked its 10-year anniversary last year, their Bad Thing EP (featuring Iggy Pop) in 2017, and Hot Slick in 2020. In February, they return with If I’m Alive Now, Then I Was Dead, which marks a profound rebirth for the band, signalling a fresh new chapter in their sound. Created as a cathartic exploration of existentialism, the deeply meaningful collection of songs explores the themes of true love and the complex dualities of life and death, with the album’s rebirth-themed title borrowed from a Sylvia Plath poem ‘Love Letter’.
Introducing the album is new single ‘All Over’, which was recorded at Stockport’s Resonance Studios and engineered and mixed by Joel Patchett (King Krule, Let’s Eat Grandma), with the band leaning into a more organic and real approach to the recording process. Opening with poised yet disconcerting guitars, backed by fierce, smoky vocals that build into a chant-like anthemic chorus, the song references PINS early musical influences from the 60s girl-group sound of The Ronettes to the gritty punk of The Stooges. The video inspires a feeling of empowerment and new beginnings as it follows the band on a nocturnal journey through Manchester.
The band says, “’All Over’ started as a demo about desire. It was one of the most fully formed songs that we had when we started working on our new album. The structure and everything was already there, it was just about getting the sounds down. The energy is driving and it feels a little angular.”
If I’m Alive Now, Then Was I Dead:
- All Over
- I’ll Be Yours
- Rose
- If We Could Go Back Again
- Young Love
- No Tears
- I Dream Of You
- Is It True?
- Do You Still Think Of Me?
- I Do
- Watch It Burn
