No Pain In Pop

Parts & Labor

No Pain in Pop has been a while enamoured with the artisan pop music of Brooklyn’s Parts & Labor. Recently expanded to a quartet (guitarist Sarah Lipstate adding a flash of naïf charm to a sound storm always noble in its toil, drummer Joe Wong anchoring the whole thing motorik) P&L return later this year with Receivers. The successor to last year’s Mapmaker longplayer, the band’s fourth full album - by the sounds of new single ‘Nowheres Nigh’ – towers in melodic altitudes only hinted at by the band’s past; cutting a dash between pop and noise that compels us into sundreams of The Left Banke sweating a builder’s broth as there’s laughing with friends in the swelter of a humid city, all good work, cash in hand for some of Tom Wolfe’s “good ol’ boys” as they give up their days to earn weekend money for a short roadtrip to Rockaway.

MP3: Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh

Receivers is released in the UK on the 3rd of November (10/21 in the US) through Jagjaguwar.

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