pyncher have officially announced their next EP, I Really Mean It This Time, arriving June 19th via the esteemed independent tastemaker label Heist or Hit. To celebrate the news, the band has unleashed “Oh Boy”, a fuzzy, glitzy, lip-curled monster of a track that takes the signature style built on their debut and thickens it into a menacing, groove-heavy stomp. The announcement lands right as the band rides the wave of a highly praised appearance at the BBC 6 Music Festival in their hometown, setting the stage for a massive UK and European summer tour.
“Oh Boy” finds pyncher skulking around the atmospheric boundaries of their debut EP, Every Town Needs a Stranger, but with a far more potent, full-bodied delivery. Built around a snarl of a guitar riff, the track drives forward on an electrifying rhythm section that channels the raw energy of early hip-hop sampling, reminiscent of DJ Shadow ripping through military drum loops on an MPC. Frontman Sam Blakeley cuts through the noise with a jerky, magnetic vocal performance that nods to historic, cool-guy New York City post-punk ancestors while keeping his own perspective totally unique, self-deprecatingly crooning lines like, “I’m just a big fat loser with my head sticking over the fence.”
Beneath the track’s confident, swaggering exterior lies a deeply relatable core of introspective anxiety and emotional isolation. Blakeley’s lyrics wrestle directly with the exhausting, cyclical patterns that occur when you feel completely detached from the people around you but lack the tools to communicate your way out of it. It’s a stellar, aggressive preview of I Really Mean It This Time, and with a summer schedule that includes a supporting slot for The Sophs alongside a string of festival dates, pyncher are poised to blow the roof off the scene.
