Hmm what can said about Pink Flag that hasn't already been said. A hard-wired frenzy with each music piece resulting a different attitude/feeling sacculating into a wide screen panorama of lyrics and riffs interchanging routes bleeding into a specific path. It seems that the band through demos leading up to the big score, perfected the tonal pitch, bite and approach to snipe these songs like a bullet standing up the edge of grass, hairs spine tingling. A perfect debut, that in hindsight, already signaled a future devoid of the 3 chord delight, more work would be done in future to accompany further release. The melodies sung by Colin were taken aback by girl groups of the 60's with a groove that enticed a dancing pogo sensation. Every song felt like a new wave reel of some forgotten movie made new, spliced into simple yet complicated scheme, the lyrics runamuck like a Godard think piece and even then. Who knew the talent of the individuals herein would embark upon a career spanning decades of incredible thought-provoking material, Hivemind and remember the cyber-techno of Send. Here it happened first, imo it's Chairs Missing for favor, but Pink Flag is the very beginning of it all. There is no denying its greatness, an undisputed wraith of sound that defined the future of such an incredible band
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