Artist description Mix up some buzzy guitar hooks with a generous helping of sugary boy vocals; add a dash of after-dinner postpunk and a solid dose of irreverent but introspective lyrics. Melt it all down into a driving, lo-fi groove, and that?s Spink. Spink is some kind of junkpop, alt.rock, noise-fi, emo, or queercore, depending on who is listening. Sometimes they sound like Radiohead times The Pixies plus Burt Bacharach. Sometimes they sound like Magnetic Fields divided by Sleater-Kinney over Guided By Voices.

Music Style Lo-Fi Indie Rock

Musical Influences Guided by Voices, Liz Phair, Radiohead, Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Imperial Teen

Similar Artists Guided by Voices, Liz Phair, Radiohead, Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Imperial Teen, Magnetic Fields, Ben Folds Five, Red House Painters

Artist History Spink is the latest musical outburst from the loins of recent Seattle convert Tim Halloran. While living in San Francisco, Tim formed Spink when he was tapped to join Guided By Voices, Pavement, Olivia Tremor Control, and a bunch of other alt-rock heroes to contribute tracks for the upcoming indie gen-x flick "Dean Quixote." Asked to cut a cover of Will Oldham's "New Partner" to back the film's climactic final kiss, he pulled together some musician friends including bassist Jay Fung (The Miss Alans) and veteran noisepop producer Adam "Red" Lasus (Helium, Gigolo Aunts, Madder Rose), and caught a flight to New York to record at Lasus' converted firehouse studio in the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. It went so well that Tim packed up and moved to New York to record a bunch of his own songs with the same musicians. The result was a six-song debut EP called "freeep" that earned Spink a coveted slot at last fall's CMJ Music Marathon, as well as a smattering of glowing press reviews. Spink booked a mini-tour of California to give away the CD to all who would listen, landing shows at San Francisco's Bottom of the Hill as well as Fold at the Silverlake Lounge in Los Angeles on the strength of their debut recording. "Freeep" wound up on the playlists of some key college radio stations such as KALX in Berkeley and KCRW in Santa Monica, and recently garnered Tim a solo opening for Mirah at BENT, Seattle's queer indie music festival October 10-14, 2001. "Freeep" is now available through Amazon.com. Tim has resettled in Seattle to get some good coffee and begin work on the group's first official full-length album, with plans to reconvene everyone at Lasus' Brooklyn studio to lay it down on tape.

Group Members Tim Halloran and rotating legions of friends.

Instruments Guitar, bass, drums, synth, vocals, etc.

Albums freeep

Location Seattle, WA - USA

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