Labels: Hurricane
Review by: Alex Deller
Piñén are from Spain and play simple but intense hardcore punk. The four songs here don’t muck about, just getting in and getting the hell out again with minimum fuss and maximum aggression. Everything – from the rough-edged sound of the guitars to the singer’s gravel-grazed vocals – has this determined, desperate quality to it as though time were running out and each rudimentary chord they grind out might be their last. The results are both panicked and meaningful, a quick, primal throb of urgent punk that demands to be flipped over and over regardless of the tightening knot it places in your chest every time you do so.