"I sat and prayed by the microwave // With my ego split open and the illusion broken // I called out to God but he looked away // Stared at the stains on my ceiling // Aching for meaning..."
The plundering hope and runaway longing of "Microwave Rhapsody"by UK hybridic indie rock outfit Pynch and from their sophomore album "Beautiful Noise", that drops on October 3rd (2025) via Chillburn Recordings, is a beyond jammy runaway track that while running sadly happy hints on tiny seeds of despair and maybe even nihilism. On a previous review of Pynch I brought up sonics of both the mid 80's and "a kind of mid / late aughts punk tropicalia of The Drums (at the same time), and while I always stick to first impressions the freewheeling dreaminess and tightly wound progressive indie rock (with power pop) also feels artistically adjacent to the diverse differences of bands like The Kooks, Foals and Bloc Party. I again am enamored with the precision of the playing (while seemingly raw), dig Spencer Enock's lead vox that feels what he sings but maybe winks at you too, the exasperated screaming guitar, the potent basslines, super expressive killer drumming and the fact that even when the song is killing it, their are underpinnings of melancholy.
LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[Microwave Rhapsody is the last single from our upcoming album Beautiful Noise (out Oct 3rd on our own label Chillburn Recordings). It’s a song all about existentialism and the meaning of life. Philosophical yet euphoric, it’s a slacker-rock trip driven by pulsating basslines, krautrock drums, and bursts of distortion. We recorded the drums with Andy Ramsey from Stereolab, then finished the rest at our home studio in Brixton. It plays a key role in the narrative of the record and it's my personal favourite. I guess it’s our DIY reimagining of 1970s New York - a collision of art-punk ambition and lo-fi spirit.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
I sat and prayed by the microwave
With my ego split open and the illusion broken
I called out to God but he looked away
Stared at the stains on my ceiling
Aching for meaning
Chorus
Does it even matter at all?
Can you ever count on anything?
Is there really something more?
I dance around my bedroom while my life replays
There’s a ghost in my computer that wants to tell me my future
I close my eyes and I’m a child again
Erase your jawline from my memory
Am I the man I thought I would be?
Chorus
Does it even matter at all?
I thought I could be anything
Is there really something more?
The reflections on the ocean
The sparrows in the tree
The grinding ambition
Something to believe
I sat and prayed by the microwave
With my ego split open and the illusion broken
I called out to God but he looked away
Stared at the stains on my ceiling
Aching for meaning
And did I come from nothing more than blood and guts and sin?
Am I dreaming? Is this freedom?
One day I’ll die and I’ll return to the void
Am I asking the right question
Can my soul still go to heaven?
Chorus
Does it even matter at all?
I thought I could be anything
Is there really something more?
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LINER NOTES (excerpted / bracketed):
[Microwave Rhapsody is the last single from our upcoming album Beautiful Noise (out Oct 3rd on our own label Chillburn Recordings). It’s a song all about existentialism and the meaning of life. Philosophical yet euphoric, it’s a slacker-rock trip driven by pulsating basslines, krautrock drums, and bursts of distortion. We recorded the drums with Andy Ramsey from Stereolab, then finished the rest at our home studio in Brixton. It plays a key role in the narrative of the record and it's my personal favourite. I guess it’s our DIY reimagining of 1970s New York - a collision of art-punk ambition and lo-fi spirit.]
-Robb Donker Curtius
Lyrics:
With my ego split open and the illusion broken
I called out to God but he looked away
Stared at the stains on my ceiling
Aching for meaning
Chorus
Does it even matter at all?
Can you ever count on anything?
Is there really something more?
I dance around my bedroom while my life replays
There’s a ghost in my computer that wants to tell me my future
I close my eyes and I’m a child again
Erase your jawline from my memory
Am I the man I thought I would be?
Chorus
Does it even matter at all?
I thought I could be anything
Is there really something more?
The reflections on the ocean
The sparrows in the tree
The grinding ambition
Something to believe
I sat and prayed by the microwave
With my ego split open and the illusion broken
I called out to God but he looked away
Stared at the stains on my ceiling
Aching for meaning
And did I come from nothing more than blood and guts and sin?
Am I dreaming? Is this freedom?
One day I’ll die and I’ll return to the void
Am I asking the right question
Can my soul still go to heaven?
Chorus
Does it even matter at all?
I thought I could be anything
Is there really something more?
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://soundcloud.com/pynchband
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYI5DN-Ha20K3t7fOeEdFIQ
https://www.instagram.com/pynchband/
https://www.facebook.com/PynchBand/
https://x.com/PynchBand
https://pynchband.com/
https://pynch.bandcamp.com/album/beautiful-noise
Pynch return with Beautiful Noise, their most ambitious and personal work to date. Written and produced by Spencer Enock in the band’s Brixton bedroom studio, the album is a lo-fi exploration of love, death, and the pursuit of meaning through art. Fusing glitchy electronics with slacker rock charm and poetic sincerity, Beautiful Noise carves out its own space somewhere between Pavement, Blur and New Order.
Released via the band’s own label Chillburn Recordings, the record introduces new member Myles Gammon on synths and features vocals and drums from Julianna Hopkins. Artwork comes courtesy of Spencer’s brother Scott, using hand-developed 35mm photos to visually echo the record’s DIY spirit. Beautiful Noise is a document of a band unafraid to be vulnerable, ask questions, and create something messy, human, and quietly transcendent.
Pynch return with Beautiful Noise, their most ambitious and personal work to date. Written and produced by Spencer Enock in the band’s Brixton bedroom studio, the album is a lo-fi exploration of love, death, and the pursuit of meaning through art. Fusing glitchy electronics with slacker rock charm and poetic sincerity, Beautiful Noise carves out its own space somewhere between Pavement, Blur and New Order.
Released via the band’s own label Chillburn Recordings, the record introduces new member Myles Gammon on synths and features vocals and drums from Julianna Hopkins. Artwork comes courtesy of Spencer’s brother Scott, using hand-developed 35mm photos to visually echo the record’s DIY spirit. Beautiful Noise is a document of a band unafraid to be vulnerable, ask questions, and create something messy, human, and quietly transcendent.
Pynch, UK new wave indie rock band, dreamy, post punk, art pop, nuwave, alt pop, art punk, hybrid rock, hybrid pop, vocalist Spencer Enock, booming, power pop, punk tropicalia, "Microwave Rhapsody" Official Video,
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