This is wonderfully messed up. This is exactly the sort of thing that PNKSLM does so well. Everything about the new album from Sinday, Horror Head, reaffirms my fan-fervor for this label and bands like this.
"Experimental Jet Set" shuffles forward, the skewed pop of the thing alternately a slouch and a rave-up, while "Phantom Limb" is even lovelier. Tom Serner, the artist behind Sindy, sings this and one recalls both Medicine and The Swirlies, as well as MBV circa Tremolo, of course. "Big Scare" is tamer, while "Horror Head" melds a lilting lyricism with the warped, off-kilter indie. Sindy wisely doesn't layer feedback throughout lots of this, and the closest point of comparison is High Sunn. That's an act that's sort of venturing into the same sort of territory as what's here on Horror Head. And while I'm a fan of anything on PNKSLM, this one pleased me more than almost anything on the label in a few months at least.
Horror Head is out on PNKSLM.
More details on Sindy via the Facebook page.
[Photo: Lars Bronseth]