Monday, December 20, 2021

The 1980 Listening Post - Pinpoint - Third State

Pinpoint - Third State 



1980 Housekeeping

Pinpoint

Third State

2.75 out of 5





About 20 years later a band called The Futureheads would play music that sounds a LOT like this. And I would buy it because the clerk at Tower said it was like Adam and the Ants. It wasn’t. It’s Herky Jerky synth driven New Wave. And, for that, it’s not bad. Sometimes it slides into Dickies territory. I like the Dickies. But I don’t love this. 

Every time it feels like it might hit the sweet spot, it falls apart as song as the actual songs kicks in. “Dark and Red” is a great example of this. 

They just don’t have it. 



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