Sharp Pins - "Balloon Balloon Balloon" label_Ode Records and "Blood and Butter"

and "Blood and Butter"

Singer-guitarist Patrick Stimp adds newly soulful and loose vocal phrasing to his usual arsenal of open-throated choruses-with particular strength on cuts such as "Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet" and "What a Catch

picks up where their eponymous debut left off

the idiosyncratic raw sound and the lyrical beauty that epitomizes a classic NYCH collaboration

As on their platinum selling debut Night Visions

Sharp Pins - "Balloon Balloon Balloon" label_Ode Records and "Blood and Butter"Fall in Love again with Balloon Balloon Balloon Submission. That's the word that comes to mind when tasked with spending time on the overwhelming pop planet that belongs to Kai Slater's Sharp Pins. The universe only works when you submit: submit to love, submit to rock music. Submission to the power that comes from a kid wielding his guitar to craft impeccable guitar pop that stands in a pantheon of idols he joins with this record. Of course it makes