Foxy Bass Or Bassy Fox?

Manchester four-piece Pyncher are new to me, and I'll admit some relief that they are relatively new full stop, first releasing music via Bandcamp last year. This bucks my usual habit of 'discovering' bands a decade or so and multiple albums into their career.

2025 saw four singles and a full length album, Every Town Needs A Stranger. Single #4 was the brilliantly titled Steely Dan.

19th June sees Pyncher release a proper EP, I Really Mean It This Time, with track #3 just released with a fabulously lo-fi video.

Oh Boy is a scuzzy slab of indie pop rock, with lots of familiar stylings, musically, vocally and lyrically but you know what? It works.

The thing that distinguishes Oh Boy is bass playing (courtesy of Britt Dewhurst) that may trigger the MMS. No, I don't mean an involuntary hum, I'm talking about the Moment Magnitude Scale (MMS) used to measure earthquakes. I mean, there's heavy and then there's HEAVY.

I'm popping over to Bandcamp at the weekend to buy the EP and check out the rest of Pyncher's catalogue.

Nothing seems to happen

No matter how hard I try

And your love still fills the pavements

So I’ll keep walking outside

Been down all the alleyways

There’s nothing else to find

I just wanna be running

Around your mind

Boy, I’ve done it again

I’m just a big fat loser

With my head sticking over the fence

You said that I’ve been torn

Since the day I was born

Well I know I need more

I just don’t know what for

Now I’m wishing on a sofa

Wishing on a star

I’d wish you’d come and find me

Whoever you are

Boy, I’ve done it again

I’m just a big fat loser

With my head sticking over the fence

Boy, you wanna be friends

And I’ve told you so many times

But you’re not listening

What is all this about

I just can’t work it out

It's all good

It's just fine

It's okay

It's alright

I'm doing good

And I am fine

Boy, I’ve done it again

I’m just a big fat loser

With my head sticking over the fence

Boy, you wanna be friends

And I’ve told you so many times

But you’re not listening

What is all this about

I just can’t work it out

What is all this about

I just can’t work it out

(I just can’t work it out)