Anthony Carew pens one of our favorite reviews to date of the new Shocking Pinks trilogy “Guilt Mirrors”. After reading his review for MESS+NOISE multiple times, we’d frankly be hard-pressed to tell you if Anthony loves or hates the record, and yet the record itself manages to come into extraordinary focus and clarity throughout his […]

Ever wondered what’s up with all the drone and noise tracks on the new Shocking Pinks “Guilt Mirrors” trilogy? In his recent interview with National Radio, Nick Harte talks a lot about why Guilt Mirrors is the way it is, and why the more experimental cuts matter to him so much: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/2588298/shocking-pinks (Many thanks to […]

Misfit Mod and Maigret Jnr just premiered their phenomenal cover of the classic Motels ballad “Total Control” on UNDER THE RADAR—and it’s 100% pitch-perfect, retro-80’s, vocal duet awesomeness. UTR-editor, Laura Studarus, writes: “Total Control” once belonged to 1980s legends The Motels, but Maigret Jnr and Misfit Mod have remade it in their own image. The pair’s […]

Coming to grips with Guilt Mirrors, the new triple album by Shocking Pinks, is no doubt a difficult undertaking—trust us, we know. Some have hailed Nick Harte’s new record as “his masterpiece” and others have found it more complicated than that. Tiny Mix Tapes, for example, gave Guilt Mirrors 2.5 out of 5 stars, noting […]

Nicholas Walsh from UnderTheRadar.co.nz gives the new Shocking Pinks triple album a 9 out of 10! “Guilt Mirrors is a demanding and at times deeply unsettling listen that could be considered commercial suicide in a media landscape where the single is king. Self indulgent? Certainly, but Guilt Mirrors is also Harte’s masterpiece and an early […]

A superb review on the new Shocking Pinks record “Guilt Mirrors” courtesy of our buddies over at Witness This: “A genre bridging album that breaks any confines of stereotypical low-fi. Tracks like What’s Up With That Girl channel a sort of melancholy Crystal Castles while creating it’s own minimal punk driven soundscape. St. Louis features […]

Shocking Pinks was just featured in IMPOSE Magazine’s “Week In Pop” column. In it Sjimon Gompers sums up his thoughts on Guilt Mirrors with this jewel of a paragraph: “Guilt Mirrors is a deeply complicated and personal album that is not for everyone, and yet at the same time everyone that loves music needs to hear […]

New Shocking Pinks vinyl just arrived in all it’s hot pink glory! We’re just about sold out of our our 500 copies, so best pre-order your copy now while there’s still time!

Vincent Pollard reviews the new Shocking Pinks record Guilt Mirrors for Canada’s Exclaim! and gives it 8 out 10 points. Read the full Exclaim! review here. “Musically, Guilt Mirrors is all over the map in the best possible way. The familiar Shocking Pinks lo-fi indie sound is present, but Guilt Mirrors is way more electronic […]

Shocking Pinks featured on Bandcamp’s home page this week, with a breathtaking illustration by Oliver Barrett, and a great interview with Andrew Jervis!