After releasing a number of singles including a sold-out 7″ collaboration with Speedy Wunderground, UK band Pynch has announced their debut album, Howling at a Concrete Moon, will drop on April 14th via Chillburn Recordings. The full-length was Co-produced by Andy Ramsay of Stereolab, Howling at a Concrete Moon is an album that discusses both the personal and political, exploring what it has felt like to be young and coming of age in post-austerity Britain.

The single “2009”, which accompanies the album’s announcement, is one of the more personal tracks on the record and sees singer Spencer Enock try to reconnect with his teenage self and make sense of his hazy recollections of this time.

With the opening lines, “I’m going to dye my hair and listen to heavy metal / and skate down to the end of the world”, “2009” encapsulates the reflective nature of Howling at a Concrete Moon and shows a more vulnerable side to the band as Spencer pines for the odd simplicity of the 00s.

Spencer adds: “2009 is one of the most personal tracks from the album in a strange way and is definitely one of my favourites. It’s a reflection on being a teenager, skating the days away and being a casualty of 00s pop culture.

“I wanted to try and capture a pastoral naivety in smoking weed and skateboarding and then juxtapose it with more serious reflections on that time of my life. It’s sort of about how hard it can be to make sense of your own life’s journey and the process of trying to reconnect and reconcile with a younger version of yourself.

Pynch
Howling at a Concrete Moon
Chillburn Recordings
Tracklist

Haven’t Lived a Day
Disco Lights
Tin Foil
Maybe
2009
The City (Part 2)
The City (Part 1)
Karaoke
London
Somebody Else

“My overarching concept for the album was to try and capture my experience of what it has felt like to be young and living in Britain at this particular point in history” Spencer explains. ”I’ve tried to take my inner search for meaning and set it against the strange cultural and economic landscape that we find ourselves in”. These themes are apparent throughout the album, as Spencer grapples with existentialism and the pursuit of dreams within a doomer cityscape filled with pervasive advertising, market crashes and downloadable souls.”

To record the album, the band enlisted Andy Ramsay of Stereolab to co-produce alongside Spencer and augment his home recordings. They worked together across ten intense days at his studio in Bermondsey at the start of 2022, recording an array of material for the album with the tongue-in-cheek mantra of ‘any old shit will do’ powering them through. “Working with Andy on the album was such a fun experience” Spencer says. “We managed to get so much done and were laughing pretty much the entire time. He had a lot of creative ideas and helped us record things that would have been impossible for us to do at home.” The album was then mixed by Tom Carmichael (Porridge Radio/Matt Maltese) over in Margate where Spencer and Scott both went to school.

Pre-order Howling at a Concrete Moon by Pynch HERE