So I started writing stuff randomly and invited Rob over and we started making songs together, not planning on putting any of it out. "I was just getting back to wanting to write music and not dealing with the business bullshit that was interfering with me a lot. He explains that, at the time, he was busy extracting himself from an ill-advised Geffen contract Three Mile Pilot had entered, one that lasted a single album (1995's The Chief Assassin to the Sinister) and forecasted the end of the band, which eventually splintered into Pinback and the dark chamber-indie ensemble the Black Heart Procession. When we finally did start, it was more like an afterthought-we didn't plan it." We were already friends, and we'd always talked about playing music but never went ahead with it-we were too busy because of our other bands. "We knew each other from previous bands," Smith says on the phone from his San Diego home, "from playing together a lot at shows and stuff.
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Pinback formed in 1998 when Southern Californian scenesters Zach Smith, who had played in the popular indie-rock outfit Three Mile Pilot, and Rob Crow, who's led a series of curious pop bands such as Heavy Vegetable and Thingy, found themselves stumbling into it. You wouldn't, of course, but instead of fidgeting and making a chart and answering, you could play them Blue Screen Life, the new album by the San Diego duo Pinback, a band that probably better than any other right now captures the ineffable ebb and flow of the lives of people your age.
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And maybe your mom or dad, or maybe both, come to visit you one day in your new city in your small apartment, and they ask you how you're doing in this small apartment in this new city, and how the job hunt (or the job) is going, and you don't really know, so you wonder how to explain the quiet but dynamic contours of your life to your mom and dad who wish you had health insurance and who make genuine attempts to understand you now because they used to. Maybe you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, and maybe you're in love with him or her.Īnd maybe he or she is in love with you.
Let's say you're a young person, maybe between the ages of 19 and 26, and you've finished school and you've moved to a new city and you're happily in the process of finding your way around the world, maybe working a job, maybe not, maybe riding a bike, maybe driving a car.
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