Pink Punk
July 21, 2007
In an angry state I was listening to some One Minute Silence tracks & then got all nostalgic. They were the second ‘real’ band I saw live & although I didn’t get into them until a while after that, I was devastated when they announced they were splitting up in October 2003 after just releasing the amazing (& their best, in my opinion) album, ‘One Lie Fits All’. Since then, all I’ve known is that the members were off doing their various projects & Yap (the vocalist) was on a political spoken word tour. I kept checking PlanetYap for a long time, but stopped after a while as nothing seemed to get updated.
I was just browsing Last.FM & found out that Yap is finally making new music under the name Pink Punk. The person who linked to the website stated that he thought Yap had lost his mind & the new stuff is just weird. I would’ve had a listen anyway, but for some reason it made me want to hear it even more. I must say that I’m slightly disappointed, though. The music is not really my thing & probably not something iId get used to either… plus all i hear is regurgitated One Minute Silence titles/lyrics. I’ve e-mailed them to get a free MP3 (hopefully not the same as the ones i’ve heard) so maybe that’ll be more promising. I’m with the guy on Last.FM, though… I don’t really know what to think about it. I loved OMS, like some of Yap’s writing/philosophies/poetry, but I doubt this is something I’ll listen to, unfortunately.
If anyone fancies listening to some weird-political-experimental-abstract-hip-hop stuff, you can visit their official site, MySpace page or download three free tracks on Last.FM.
