Let It Be So EP premiere in It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine 2023
Let It Be So EP premiere in It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine
November 9, 2023
“The recording personnel for the ‘Let It Be So’ EP is A-List all the way. Legendary producer Chris 'Frenchie’ Smith (who’s also a Sixteen Deluxe bandmate with Carrie) was at the production helm once again … Joey Shuffield on drums and Bobby Daniel on bass are also top notch pros … Like singer and guitarist Pam Peltz says, ‘We are at home in this, specifically with this incarnation of musicians. It feels very natural. It feels like it’s just in our DNA. We’re not even thinking about rocking. We just do it.’”
Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran and Katy Krassner spin “Scorpion” on WHOOOSH! radio
November 19, 2023
Katy: “Scorpion” by Living Pins on WHOOOSH! which you’re listening to on Sirius XM Spectrum. I really like that song a lot.
Simon: So do I. A track by my friends and Katy’s, The Living Pins. Two great, great girls … they’ve been making fun music that we’ve been playing on our show cuz we love it.
Katy: Yes, Pam Peltz and Carrie Clark. This is the second single from their new EP, Let It Be So. They said this, and I love this … “We keep riding on 70s FM radio vibe.” They grew up listening to FM radio and that’s what they want people to sort of hear when they hear their music.
Simon: Yeah, a little bit Steely-Dan-y.
Katy: Yeah, Garage-Rock-y, like sound that envelopes you and they did.
Let It Be So EP premiere in Spill Magazine 2023
Let It Be So EP premiere in Spill Magazine
November 9, 2023
“Say hello to the new Let It Be So EP by The Living Pins. Singer and guitarist (and Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee) Carrie Clark, has this to say about the four new songs, “I think that we keep riding on that 70s FM radio vibe. We all grew up listening to FM radio, and we love the way that when you listen to everything from T. Rex to AC/DC to Slade to ELO and ABBA, there’s a fullness of sound and a wave that envelopes you and that can take you out of your present moment.”
Living Pins on Austin Music Minute/KUTX 2023
November 3,2023
“If Carrie Clark and Pam Peltz look familiar, it’s because you recognize the badasses in the house. Clark played guitar and provided vocals for Sixteen Deluxe, Peltz for Ursa Major, back in the mid ’90s. The proof is in the shreds that The Living Pins delivers. It started as a side project that almost faded away, but in the fall of 2020 the duo got into a studio with producer Jeff Copas and created their debut EP Freaky Little Monster Children (2021), hailed as “a trip, and it’s a journey” by Trebelzine, and “…impossibly cool” by AV Club. Multiple levels of cool, actually, mixing ’60s psych and ’90s alt.-rock riffs in raw, crunchy fashion. Big sound, big fun.
The band released the new singles “Aeroplane” (featured on today’s AMM) and “Scorpion” just ahead of their forthcoming EP Let It Be So, out next week.”
-Laurie Gallardo, Host of Austin Music Minute
“Scorpion” single premiere in Static Multimedia 2023
Ocober 19, 2023
“Say hello to the new Let It Be So EP by The Living Pins. Singer and guitarist Carrie Clark, (and Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee) has this to say about the four new songs, ‘I think that we keep riding on that 70s FM radio vibe. We all grew up listening to FM radio. And we love the way that when you listen to everything from T. Rex to AC/DC to Slade to ELO and ABBA, there’s a fullness of sound and a wave that envelopes you and that can take you out of your present moment. On this EP, ‘Love Is 4’ and ‘Aeroplane’ are more on the AC/DC side, like if Marc Bolan and Rob Halford were hanging out. And then ‘Scorpion’ has some Paisley Underground, you know, Dream Syndicate and Rain Parade, woven into it … plus it’s a story-telling song. And those were really big on FM radio. So it’s like a 70s story song with these beautiful affected guitars that come from our own live music experience. And then ‘Starlight’ is just fun.’”
-Static Multimedia