Credits:

Sharp Pins

Description:

Based in Chicago, USA, LIFEGUARD is a promising new star who resonates with their ally HORSEGIRL and sounds the noisy and agonizing parts of US indie music. The band’s icon and brain, Kai Slater, also runs SHARP PINS as a solo unit and has been captivating indie listeners with his two world views. The new SHARP PINS release “BALLOON BALLOON BALLOON” is a masterpiece of Kai Slater himself!This album is a continuation and evolution of the previous album “Radio DDR” that expanded the name of SHARP PINS, and the direction in which the lo-fi x slacker rock of the K RECORDS stamp has been matured and sharpened is as robust as if the band had decided to become the backbone of the label.The sound, created at Kai’s home in Chicago and a studio in Olympia, WA, is now available on the single “(I Wanna) Be Your Girl”! The dreamy softness of youth that resides in the rustic, stripped-down recording has a qual