“Break Your Heart” Out Now
Today, Atlanta rock and roll four-piece The Pinx return with amps cranked and emotional centers recharged on new single + video “Break Your Heart”. It might be futile to attempt to pin down The Pinx to a single sub-genre within rock (they certainly wouldn’t), but “Break Your Heart” finds the group whole-heartedly embracing timeless classic rock, replete with crunching blues licks and belt-along vocals. This new single, with its hook that gets to the heart of what makes the band tick, serves as the perfect reintroduction to this group who embrace life’s ups and down, wrap them in riffs and take them on with a bittersweet swagger.
Vocalist and guitarist Adam McIntyre explains the experiences that inspired this new song; “2021 was a scary year for depression for me, and I was eager to release it in my lyrics. This song developed into a feel-good rocker turned on its head when I sang “feelin ‘bout as bad as I can feel” over that sunny riff. I just felt like either all the pain I was feeling could make me numb for months on end, or I could let it break my heart open. I really wanted to feel it all. Otherwise, how do I know I’m alive? That’s how I clawed my way back to the light.”
“Break Your Heart” arrives with a noir visual that gives the viewer a window into the days of two audience members at a Pinx show and testifies to the emotional power of human beings united together in rock.
The Pinx’s eponymous fourth album will arrive on August 19th on Rocket Reducer Records via Earache Distribution and continues the decibel-pushing trajectory that began over a decade ago and has so far seen them through two acclaimed albums and three EPs. On this outing, the band reconvene with GRAMMY-nominated engineer Tom Tapley (who recorded their 2010 EP Southern Tracks and whose production/mixing credits include Mastodon and Blackberry Smoke) to faithfully capture their full dynamic energy at West End Sound, the studio that he shares with Mastodon. For McIntrye, the choice of Tapley goes beyond his wizardry behind the soundboard. “I knew him from Montgomery, Alabama, where we grew up. He would ride his bike over to the blues club where my power trio would be doing blues covers and Hendrix, and he would watch through the window... and neither of us were old enough to be in the club, period. It just made sense for my soul to come back to someone I felt understood the big picture of who I am, who we are and where we came from. It was nice to just believe in each other and craft this album and shoot for the moon.”
The Pinx are anchored by McIntyre, who was raised amongst the blues traditions of Alabama before migrating to Nashville to serve a stint as a Music City road warrior, and finally finding his musical home amongst the Atlanta scene. He explains, “They want you to be yourself... Try to just be yourself to the 10th power, and that’s honestly what I was trying to do with The Pinx." Having spent the band’s formative early years featuring a rotating cast of friends, guests, and guns-for-hire, The Pinx now find themselves settled on a lineup that finally feels whole. It’s the same lineup that was there for 2019s Sisters And Brothers and features McIntyre alongside the guitar-slinging aerospace engineer Chance McColl, low-end from Chuck Wiles, and the driving backbeat of Cayce Buttrey. These four musicians combine their powers to deliver rock destined to capture the hearts of those that like their vocals gutsy, guitar licks flying, and the volume turned up to the point that it vibrates the soul.