Shocking Pinks /// “This Aching Deal” /// Shocking Pinks
And with that, What You Should Have Heard, 2000-2009 comes to a close. For now. I’ll probably sprinkle a handful of entries in throughout the rest of the year. But hey: Shocking Pinks know how to say goodbye. What sounds like a solo project is actually a cast of various giggers who revolve around New Zealander Nick Harte, who had a hipster haircut before anyone else and goes well with crippling depression. His shambling lo-fi has a serious Phil Elverum/Mount Eerie streak and all the uncomfortable intimacy that come with it. Most of Shocking Pinks, which marked a move from Flying Nun to DFA, bears no mark of the new label, achieving a prickly post-punk whose industrial chill has been swapped out for a naturally cold dawn in frostbitten meadowlands.
