Debut Album 'Hey Friend What You Doing?' released September 28th
Where have all the good new British bands gone? Hello? Is there anyone out there? The answer is a pretty resounding “nope”. Stop and think of a genuinely good new band you have heard in a year that is already way past half-done and I bet you ten Chomps you’ll struggle.
Then we saw Pens and it changed everything. Their set lasts about 14 minutes and the girls swap instruments in between tunes mainly because it appears none of them really know what they are doing. The whole thing is so swathed in static and reverb and shambolic about-to-fall-apartness that it’s like watching that YouTube clip of the kid kicking through the granite wall and getting his ankle snapped in half: kind of bite-your-bottom-lip atrocious but kind of the best thing you have seen since ever.
They also do a cover of “Sex Beat” by the Gun Club that sounds like the Germs trying to be the Shangri-Las through a gauze of early K Records fuzz. ~ Jammin’ Johnson / VICE
LIVE DATES:
23- Sept London Cargo w/ Times New Viking and Male Bonding
28–Sept London ROUGH TRADE EAST INSTORE
12-Oct Manchester Deaf Institute w/ THE SLITS
13-Oct Glasgow Stereo w/ THE SLITS
14-Oct Birmingham Rainbow w/THE SLITS
15-Oct Southampton Talking Heads w/ THE SLITS
16-Oct London ULU w/ THE SLITS
Then we saw Pens and it changed everything. Their set lasts about 14 minutes and the girls swap instruments in between tunes mainly because it appears none of them really know what they are doing. The whole thing is so swathed in static and reverb and shambolic about-to-fall-apartness that it’s like watching that YouTube clip of the kid kicking through the granite wall and getting his ankle snapped in half: kind of bite-your-bottom-lip atrocious but kind of the best thing you have seen since ever.
They also do a cover of “Sex Beat” by the Gun Club that sounds like the Germs trying to be the Shangri-Las through a gauze of early K Records fuzz. ~ Jammin’ Johnson / VICE
LIVE DATES:
23- Sept London Cargo w/ Times New Viking and Male Bonding
28–Sept London ROUGH TRADE EAST INSTORE
12-Oct Manchester Deaf Institute w/ THE SLITS
13-Oct Glasgow Stereo w/ THE SLITS
14-Oct Birmingham Rainbow w/THE SLITS
15-Oct Southampton Talking Heads w/ THE SLITS
16-Oct London ULU w/ THE SLITS
“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 grrrl-style” The Music Fix
PENS on MySpace Music
“Our new favourite all-girl lo-fi garage pop has been spreading fun and awesomeness throughout the capital” pinglewood blog
“Revolution grrrl-style” The Music Fix
PENS on MySpace Music
