The Pink Noise is probably one of the best-named bands I’ve seen for a while. Single-handedly, they’ve been able to define their brand of noised-out lo-fi meanderings. In their own words, they state they are a mixture between ultra-hip bands Suicide and Chrome. Listening to this, I hear fragments of both, but they aren’t as good or as ambitious as either.
Chrome dealt with way more distortion than what these guys muster through the course of the album. Meanwhile, the Suicide comparison does fit some of these songs, especially the tighter ones like “Wild Love” which is one of the main highlights. Later in the album we hear echoes of their attempts at a tighter focus with “Flow into the Void”.
What makes a lot of this boring is how gray the sounds are. I adore lo-fi, and think a lot of it is quite good, but this sounds exactly like pink noise. Nothing is differentiated. I do hear enough interesting results coming out of here to prevent me from dismissing it completely. But for the most part, this is something you could listen as something in the background. There simply isn’t enough going on in the songs themselves for me to recommend deeper listening.