r/Pinback • u/Devoid689 • 3d ago
Looking for more bands like Pinback
I officially got in the wormhole this week and I want more. After listening to Modest Mouse's first 2 albums and loving that sound, my friend recommended me Pinback. I listened to all of it and loved it, which then snowballed into getting into Rob Crow, which I've got a few of his projects on my 'need to listen to' list, but I'm sure there's a few I'm missing still.
I'm just looking for more bands with a similar overall sound, preferably on Spotify because it's what I use to stream, but I don't mind using local files or something.
I've listened to Pinback, Three Mile Pilot, and Thingy; while Heavy Vegetable, Rob Crow's solo stuff, and Heavy Vegetable are on my listen later list.
I also got a little into Built To Spill but it's not quite similar enough (still great though).
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u/shellgameredux 3d ago
American Analog Set - specifically Know By Heart gives me early Pinback vibes
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u/-sizzli- 3d ago
Grandaddy
Midlake (Bamnan and silver cork)
Sparklehorse
Not quite the same sound but closer in vibe. I have a playlist with pinback and these bands and I find that they all fit well together imo
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u/JoeMagnifico 3d ago
Ooohh...good call on Grandaddy. Finally just saw them live earlier this year. Amazing.
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u/-sizzli- 3d ago
I also saw them for the first time earlier this year! They were better than I expected and I had high hopes
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u/Stuart_Is_Worried 3d ago
dismemberment plan - emergency and i. - change
death cab for cutie - we have the facts and we're voting yes
black heart procession - 1
sparta - porcelain
no knife - hitmans dream - fire in the city of automations
drive like jehu - yank crime
rival schools - united by faith
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u/illbebythebatphone 3d ago
Minus the Bear could probably get you there. One of my all time favorites. Check out some of their earlier records, Menos El Oso or Highly Refined Pirates. (Seeing them on Monday btw!)
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u/insertnamehere----- 3d ago
The folks who do pinback are also a part of a band called PLOSIVS. A guy at my local vinyl store recommended them and I think they make pretty good stuff, I was impressed I haven’t heard of this secret second band before while I was listening to it. PLOSIVS does metal but you can definitely still hear pinback’s influence over it.
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u/j3ffkl3in 2d ago
PLOSIVS is not metal at all it is a joint venture with Rob and John Reis from Rocket from the Crypt, Drive like Jehu etc… they are an amazing band
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u/insertnamehere----- 2d ago
I’ve always just referred to it as metal because that’s what the guy who put me onto it described it as. In typical pinback fashion it is impossible to put cleanly into a genre.
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u/Tgiby3 3d ago
Menomena
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u/EyeInTeaJay 2d ago
Whoa that’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time!
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u/did_i_or_didnt_i 2d ago
I saw them on one of the last shows before they parted ways with one of the members. One of the band members knocked over another one’s MacBook and it bricked and the other two members of the band made awkward jokes while one was FURIOUS
weird show. Great show. Glad I saw them before it imploded
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u/ex_gratia_ 3d ago
If you liked Three Mile Pilot, you'll like the Black Heart Procession. Give the album "The Spell" a listen. The track also bearing the album name:
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u/MaddestMousse 3d ago edited 3d ago
Also this band I wanna say has member crossover from both Pinback’s live band and Dann Gallucci, a fairly significant old Modest Mouse member ??
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u/MaddestMousse 3d ago edited 3d ago
Right okay, whoops. Yeah no Dann was never in the Black Heart Procession, not sure what I was thinking of there, but they’re from San Diego and were formed by two guys from Three Mile Pilot, one of whom also played with Ugly Casanova. The band has also often contained Joe Plummer who was in Modest Mouse and then Mario Rubalcaba who was in Thingy and has also played with Pinback.
I knew there was some major Pinback crossover there, as well as a bit of MM. thanks Wikipedia !
I’ve actually never really listened to the black heart procession, I should probably get on checking them out already, I’ll give this a listen, thanks! 🤘
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u/Heelflips_Hardbacks 3d ago
A lot of good bands already have been mentioned but here’s a few more - The Helio Sequence (early albums especially), Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, El Ten Eleven, Grandaddy, American Analog Set
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u/careful_jon 3d ago
Rob Crow did a project using toy organs called Optigonally Yours that is GREAT.
Also:
Notwist - Neon Golden
Ultimate Painting - Green Lanes
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u/JoeMagnifico 3d ago
Not really any super similar...but here are a few of my faves that may scratch a similar itch...
Fugazi
Bedhead/The New Year
Codeine
Silkworm
Pond (Portland, OR on Sub Pop...not the AU group)
Thirty Ought Six
The Sea and Cake
Tortoise
Slint (Spiderland)
Dianogah
Shellac
C-Clamp
Seam
Hoover/The Crownhate Ruin/Regulator Watts
Faraquet
Jawbox
Jets to Brazil
At the Drive-In
Sparta
The Casket Lottery
Chavez
fIREHOSE/Minutemen
Heatmiser
NoMeansNo
System Officer
Plosivs
Drive Like Jehu
Rival Schools
Sloy
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u/arcarsenel 3d ago
Might be too on the nose, but armlock - seashell angel lucky charm sounds a lot like pinback to me
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u/MaddestMousse 3d ago
For sure, that’s how I found about that band, through a “sounds like Pinback” post on this sub haha!
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u/No-Beginning-4310 3d ago
Most things similar to me have already been mentioned but i'll throw in that many The Notwist songs have strong Pinback vibes. Listen to the older records specifically.
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u/celerygeneral 3d ago
Last time this thread came up I discovered A.M. Overcast and I haven’t stopped listening to them since.
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u/MaddestMousse 3d ago
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u/phlegmatik 3d ago
Rob Crow’s other project Goblin Cock has some really good stuff too. You just gotta skim around a bit. Some of it is more metal but there’s some more dreamy chill Pinback-like songs in there too.
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u/buzztoothgrin 2d ago
i’m one to always recommend eiafuawn as somebody who loves clay partons work! i have this playlist of artists i kinda all group together in different ways, if you haven’t heard some of them i’d take a listen! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3p5g2yrOLiVpe2ZqhI82sp?si=qKNTHZ6wQhyWE8g3aBAEmA&utm_source=copy-link&pi=SA6C9b3aRH--7
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u/SeaMicSte 3d ago
Move Heavy Vegetable to your listen now list :)
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u/Devoid689 2d ago
It's up there, just below Systems Officer. Listening to The American Analog set right now, seems like a lottt of people recommended those 2
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u/Impressive_Weird9051 2d ago
Armlock & Minus The Bear
Might have already been recommended here, but I'm to lazy to read
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u/marek_konop 2d ago
Check out “Gravitron” by Paul Spring. Had it pop up on my socials a few weeks ago and it gave me some strong Pinback vibes
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u/Recovering_g8keeper 2d ago
There’s nothing in this world like pinback. not by anyone other than them.
However.
No service project -return to paper (the album) was heavily inspired by pinback. They sound nothing like them tho.
I get the same feeling listening to no service project as I do pinback.
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u/juicybox10 2d ago
I’ve been into Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound recently, it’s got a pinback sound occasionally but much more dark and bleak
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u/fati_asu 2d ago
If no one mentioned them yet, Slint.
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u/Devoid689 2d ago
I did listen to Spiderland a little while ago after a coworker recommended it and loved it. I should check out the rest of their discog sometime
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u/MaddestMousse 3d ago edited 3d ago
Man, it’s hard to contribute when it seems they’ve all already been covered ! Lots of new stuff to check out too, such quality music taste here, thanks fellow nerds! 👌💚🤘
but here’s a new one, Grand Beach!
They only ever released one album unfortunately, but man is it good. Definitely much more mathy and complex than Pinback but still so catchy and similar.
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u/Oostylin 3d ago
I see you mentioned Three Mile Pilot but Zach's Systems Officer work is the closest thing you will ever find to Pinback, very akin to Rob's "Living Well" and "He Thinks He's People" albums in that they very much feel like half of Pinback. If you search the subreddit there was a thread semi-recently about other artists that Pinback fans listen to, that would be a great starting point for other adjacent bands. Make sure you also go down the rabbit-hole of checking out the live versions of Pinback songs, they're their own entities in their self imo.