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Amsterdam-based indie-rock band Canshaker Pi have shared a new single - What You're Trying To Say - ahead of it's release this Friday on Excelsior Recordings. You can check it out below.
Dutch slackers Canshaker Pi are a four-piece band comprised of four friends who met in an Amsterdam school overlooking the famous Paradiso venue. Despite still being in their teens, the band has been making a huge mark across Europe with their shambolic, fuzz-fuelled anthems.
Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus was so infatuated by them, describing them as having the talent to “blow the world away with their sound”, he actually traveled to Holland to work with them on an album. He wasn’t wrong either, the band’s newest cut truly marks them as a force to be reckoned with.
‘What You’re Trying To Say’ is an urgent and catchy-as-hell blast of debauched garage rock, meandering at a knee-jerk pace between nonchalant indie-rock and riotous, fuzzed-out noise. The single falls somewhere between Built To Spill, Pixies, Ought and Parquet Courts but delivered with their own totally insatiable drive.
Willem’s infectious vocals confidently veer between apathetic and boisterous whilst the gritty guitar melodies twist and turn, underpinned by a swirling cacophony of hissing feedback and white noise that guides the track into it’s utterly majestic and raucous conclusion that leaves you desperately wanting more.
Thankfully it looks we won’t have to wait long as there’s a new album in the works and UK dates being booked for May so until then, wrap your ears around this – it truly is something else.
