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PIJN
Cinematic post-rock pulled from the throes of mourning.
Pijn’s music is as tricksy as their spelling!
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PIJN’S NAME IS
pronounced ‘pine’. “There’s a list on our Google Drive of all the possible pronunciations that we’ve heard so far, and it’s very long,” says guitarist and bandleader Joe Clayton with a laugh. “The weirdest one is ‘pinge’ – they were just moving the letters around to suit what they wanted! ‘Peeing’… that was a good one.”
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet, however, and Pijn’s blend of prog, post-rock and symphonic music is particularly sublime to behold. On their two albums, the Manchester-based collective lay down sweeping, polyrhythmic compositions, each one dynamic and building to an evocative crescendo. Then, they layer gorgeous cellos on top to seal the orchestral and powerful atmosphere.