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Pink Punk are a strange force. Both Advertising and Controversy are built on the basis of interesting concepts, but where both songs have a similar feel to them, both strike two very different sets of chords. Controversy is a 4:12 masterpiece of the electro-rock spectrum; throwing samples, beats and distorted guitar riffs here, there and everywhere, but when you feel like Controversy cant be outshone in the unique category, Advertising proves to be on a whole different level of overwhelmingly enjoyable music.
The song combines samples from one of Bill Hicks famous spoken word shows with some extremely interesting and provocative electro beats that are splashed across a canvas of distorted guitars and hip-hop-rock drum beats. Altogether it creates a sound so unique and musically diverse that youll want to listen to both songs over and over again, no matter what genre you usually consider for you.
Pink Punk will drag you in, and once your there; you’re never going to escape the web of overall exuberance that they have created through both of these fantastic songs. 5/5
Altsounds Advertising / Controversy review
The guitars at times remind me of early Tool, so for that alone I’m impressed. What you get with this record is something different, unique and with a platform of great musicians to build from, Pink Punk has started to travel in a new direction from the rest.
YouLikeWeLike Pink Punk interview
Pink Punk, in their own words “met through the world of handshakes and smiles.” Originally consisting of Yap and Donna Williams on vocals, and with Massy working the guitar, and John Hendicott twiddling the knobs, there is even room for a little bit of poetry on the side…
Sphere interview
Recently, we had the opportunity to catch up with the enigmatic and outspoken vocalist Yap. We talked about his past in One Minute Silence and the stimulating and hard-hitting sounds he’s making now as part of Pink Punk…
Rocksnail Interview
Some of my first and most prominent memories of the music I love are for the now defunct One Minute Silence. I remember the intensity of their music and the way in which the floor appeared to explode each and every time I saw the band play. What’s more these were the first band I ever met that introduced me to the notion that musicians are not always to be placed on a pedestal, in fact some are the same as us. The band captivated me and many of my peers with their insatiable thirst for human interaction and conversation. I remember…
Rogue Tomato on Rockstars / Calling Time
The whole album has an incredibly heartfelt and unabashed feel to it. Seemingly avoiding the over hyped grandeur of the music industry, the record still seems to shine…You can’t help but fall in love with something so entrancingly well crafted and original.
RockMidgets on Zombie God Delicious
With John Hendicott mixing up atmospherics, strings and live instruments, the music has an almost cinematic feel, whilst Yap keeps singing to a minimum (as on gorgeous single ‘Calling Time’) normally either rapping or – more commonly – delivering his lyrics through spoken word. The album opens with the line “I’m 32 seconds away from killing myself” before stalking outwards into fierce, socially conscious lyrics and startlingly varied instrumentation that encompasses chugging guitars (‘Pink Punk Presents’), skittering electronics (‘Old Enough To Die…’), hip hop beats (‘Down A Hole With Alice’), and even Bill Hicks (‘Advertising’), but mostly provides atmospheric or frantic breakbeats of the highest quality. It makes for an intriguing listen, and an excellent, original album. But it’s very much an acquired taste … Once you’re there though, it’s fascinating.
Pennyblack on Zombie God Delicious
Despite the slow beat-poetry of ‘Universe on Tap’, the CD speeds up with ‘Pink Punk Presents’ as a poem in a classic industrial-metal structure. Similarly, ‘Catalogue Democracy’ is more break-beat poetry to a dark-trance/techno rhythm, with an exceptional chorus. One of the album’s highlights is the dystopian tale ’Old Enough” set to a techno track. An impressive collection of tracks exploring Yap’s strong political views in an intriguing format that is surprisingly effective.
OMS lead guitarist Massy joins Pink Punk
Guitarist Massimo Fiocco (Massy) and vocalist Brian “Yap” Barry of One Minute Silence are to bring their ultra-high energy chemistry to the stage once again in the Pink Punk live band line up.
Massy brings heavy guitar rawness to Pink Punk’s mix of eclectic breaks, deep atmosphere and evocative vocals. This will be the first time Yap and Massy have performed together since the spit of One Minute Silence, who were once voted the “Best British Live Act” in Kerrang! magazine.
Yap on playing with Massy: “I’m delighted Massey’s involved in the project. He brings a raw energy to the live band and I’m very excited to be hitting the stage with him again”.
Massy on Pink Punk: “I love how original Pink Punk is. There’s a powerful message being spread with Yaps lyrics and I think John Hendicott is an amazing musician and producer. I’m excited about what’s gonna be created when I start to write with them. I feel the live shows will be something really special!”.
Subba-cultcha on Zombie God Delicious
The most exciting artist in UK hip hop, and featuring the second most exciting artist to boot. An album of outstanding quality in terms of song construction, production, social conscience and musical innovation, and the contributions from female South London rapper Excentral Tempest not only work brilliantly well but also confirm her fearsome potential as an artist in her own right. Simply outstanding.
UK Hip Hop Forum on Zombie God Delicious
A boiling pot of all things urban … abstract musical science with Great British tendencies … it’s very unique.
HHB Radio on Zombie God Delicious
Good stuff and really well produced and thought out. It’s good to see that originality isn’t dead. A big thumbs up from the HHB crew!
Sphere on Zombie God Delicious
Harking back to the best moments of OMS only with an added raw, poetic undergroove … one of the most original records we will hear this year.
Rocksound on Zombie God Delicious
The soundtrack for the current world … The fact Bill Hicks is officially sampled speaks volumes of the intent here. Inspirational.
Breaks FM on One More Remix
Tech Itch remix is fucking awesome…the Hope Dub Step remix is awesome, its brilliant, I love and I really REALLY REALLY want to play it, on radio, at my gigs, everywhere.
Pro Mobile on One More Remix
A pretty powerful redefinition of the lines drawn in the ground showing music rules…You could say the book has been thrown out totally, because innovation has just taken over. Sometimes like U2, and sometimes like Prodigy, but only vaguely, because when the rap hits either way, there is a Mathers and DJ Green Lantern infusion and Orb style production.
Entertainment InUK on Zoo Politics
Full of hard-hitting and stream-of-conscientious lyrics performed over producer John Hendicott’s samples and beats, sometimes amusing, other times stark and adamant … Pink Punk are an intriguing prospect as if Michael Moore’s books and films have been put to music.
Tasty on Zoo Politics
Undoubtedly energetic and angry, there is plenty of humour involved too. I love the references to ’Ozzy’s monkey children’… it is impossible to hide the quality of the programming and various loops and bleeps choreographed by John Hendicott … A very purposeful and bold album.
Penny Black on Zoo Politics
This is how an album that is billed as a “Social commentary” should be … Hopefully this band and this album will become popular and the message will spread. Although after listening to this, and having what ever optimism I had left pushed out, I do feel that the masses won’t get to hear this gem as it’s far too thoughtful for what the current mass media wants. I hope I am proved wrong.
Toxic Pete on One More Remix
Solid, awesome, grinding d&b to blow yer sox off. And I thought drum & bass had had its day or a least gone off the boil. But, if Pink Punk are anything to go by, drum & bass is alive and extremely bloody well thank you! And, Pink Punk don’t take any prisoners – this is stunning stuff … I love this little beauty!
Glasswerk on Zoo Politics
It comes by the name of ‘Zoo Politics’ and to many critics in the music industry, it has already caused such a stir to be the most polemic album since the Sex Pistol’s eponymous release, ‘Never Mind The Bollocks….’
The album is bursting from the seams with hard-hitting and conscientious lyrics performed over producer John Hendicott’s samples and beats … An intriguing prospect, you wouldn’t be far off from classing them as an audible version of the media extremist, Michael Moore.
Alternative Nation on Zoo Politics
Are you a strongly right wing American who doesn’t like thinking for yourself? Then it’s probably a safe bet this isn’t for you. If you’re generally mainstream then yet again this probably isn’t going to float your boat either, it might just shatter some of those safe feelings you have. However if you’re interested in thinking for yourself and willing to listen to political poetry, ranting and lecturing about the society you live in put to a backing track with the odd smattering of singing then yeah there’s a good chance you’ll think this is great…
Music OHM on Zoo Politics
If you thought Bono and Bob Geldolf had supplied enough Irish social action politick to keep the world on its toes, you are in for a very rude awakening akin to napalm being poured into your ear drums. This is the oral equivalent of a severely riled Henry Rollins, an incensed Bob Geldof, and a raving Jello Biafra all backed by Rage Against the Machine playing their
hearts out at the world’s last ever anti capitalist demonstration…Yap spits his anti-‘just about everything organised’ war cry with razor like precision.
Virgin Media on Zoo Politics
Yap is back. The man who fronted One Minute Silence and gave Rage Against The Machine a run for their money back in the day has resurfaced as the leading light of Pink Punk. This, a limited edition album, is as uncompromising as anything the man has put out before. Every one of the 14 tracks festers with boiling anger at the way the world is, whether it’s war, greed, corruption, child abuse, religious hypocrisy; you name anything that’s crap about the world we live in today, Yap raps his views around it.
