If you haven’t finished your last-minute holiday shopping for the indie music lover in your family, check out the Georgia-based Pinecones’ debut album Sings For You Now.
The group was formed during a breakfast in 2012 when guitarist Brian Atoms wanted to pursue a sound “that was influenced by the existential writings of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman.” While all four members have more of a punk and grindcore background, the longtime friends, who have played off and on together for nearly a decade, collaborated on their most recent project to create a mastery of vintage rock mixed with some cosmic distortion and a little bit of spoken word.
Their first single “Sleep is Forget” features warm guitar riffs that could have come from an underground London club in the late 1960s and a melancholy, meditative chorus that will intrigue any listener. The road to enlightenment is a long one, but for now, these tracks are definitely a fun listen and may be what you need to relax and clear your head.
Listen below.
Sings For You Now is available for digital download from Bandcamp, and will be released on cassette from from Arbor Labor Union and on vinyl from Arrowhawk Records in 2015.