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Member Since: 4/2/2006
Band Website: pinmedown.net
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Management: Larry Little, email [email protected]
Booking (UK and Europe): Ed Stringfellow, The Agency Group, email [email protected]
Publicity and press requests (UK): Heather Finlay at Sainted PR, email [email protected]
NME, May 30, 2008
"Boy girl duo Pin Me Down have come up with a right proper ditty, that's dead catchy too. Driving, jangly guitar riffs and sing song vocals give "Cryptic" an immediacy destined for major airplay..." i-D magazine, July 2008.
Tony Nailor, Guardian, May 31
"It's compositional effort rather than any specific sound that defines the compilation's several successes. Pin Me Down's by turns sneering and sighing "Cryptic" aims for a midpoint between the Bush Tetras and early Bananarama, and comes out sounding like an ace angry Girls Aloud single. Which should tell us two things: Firstly, that combining rock guitar and beat-heavy electronic production in pop songs isn't so novel that these artists deserve a medal just for turning up, and, conversely, that this very combination can aspire to pop majesty when the participants try hard enough."
Pitchfork Media Feb. 6, 2008
Music Week magazine, May 19, 2008
Pop Justice song of the Day, May 9, 2008
"A Bloc Party side project turns out to be quite brilliant...all you really need to know is that Pin Me Down is the fit bloke from Bloc Party and some bird called Milena Mepris making good sounding, good looking electro pop. So well done them. "
Pop Justice, Song of the Day, PMD's "Cryptic," Jan 25, 2008
"Given Lissack's global success and Mepris's own solo work, it's hardly surprising it's taken so long for Pin Me Down to release anything but, Lord have mercy, the wait has been worth it. The track "Cryptic" throbs with an infectious 80s dance-pop finesse that showcases her ear for an anthem and his all-encompassing musical flair - and it's just the tip of an extremely large iceberg, considering that they already have two album's worth of material."
Dazed and Confused Magazine March 2008.
Pin Me Down profiled as one of 8 new indie pop bands in the Times's article, "Pop Bands Shun Major Labels to go Indie."
The Times of London Saturday edition, February 23, 2008.
"Pin Me Down, whose "Cryptic" made the Kitsuné mix...Soon enough, Pin Me Down will take this mysterious new project beyond the realms of the 'Cryptic,'"
Pitchfork Media, Jan 24, 2008
"As his full-time concern prepare to head back into the studio,... Bloc Party’s Russell Lissack is hurriedly tidying the rough edges on something else, namely his new side-project Pin Me Down. The guitarist has paired with New York songwriter Milena Mepris for the new act, which will bear fruit with a Kitsune-released single in spring...We sense that Pin Me Down is evidence of [their] love of early 90's pop and dance rearing its head."
Drowned In Sound, Jan 28, 2008
"Is [Milena Mepris], the most annoying frontwoman of 2008? Possibly." - Emma Edmondson, NME, May 20, 2008.
"The first great pop track of 2008...'Cryptic' has a brilliant pop structure with enticing lead-ins to the chorus and the middle eighth is spine tingly lovely (we've always loved classic middle eighths - always a sure sign of a composer with a very bright future)....Pin Me Down currently don't have a label according to their myspace page but we suspect that they will be snapped up fairly soon."
Electronically Yours, Jan 26, 2008
Record Label: Kitsune
Type of Label: Indie
