From Lost at Sea E-zine
If you haven’t noticed, I’ve mentioned the title of the album a bunch of times. My goal is that when you read this review, you’ll remember the title, the phrase Quiet Games For Hot Weather, relating it to the music. And I must say, the title is quite an appropriate one. This is quiet music for hot weather (preferably too hot weather), sitting under a weeping willow, overlooking a lake, thinking about the good, about the bad, about everything... See Full Review
From SF Gate Music and Nightlife secion
The stealth San Francisco emo-rockers of Pinq go quiet and meditative with shimmering, droney guitar, almost pastoral keyboards and breathy vocals. Bliss poppers? Floyd fetishists? Just float away on the bed of gentle space rock laid down by Quiet Games for Hot Weather, the first album by vocalist Tim Mitchell, drummer Ben Montesano, bassist Greg Bertens and keyboardist Tad Ro.
From the 2001 Devil In The Woods guide to the Noisepop Music Festival.
Pinq are making their Noise Pop debut this year, just as they're hitting their stride with their own brand of sneaky and aggressive emo-ish rock. Three years in the making, the San Francisco-based quartet has steadily climbed the local ladder, and now that it's completed its debut album, "Quiet Games for Hot Weather", its seems like only a matter of time before the rest of the country is scrambling for snatches of Pinq.
Photos from the Pinq Noise Pop show.
From the San Francisco Bay Guardian April 8th, 2001
...it soars over monuments of blasting distortion with lovely harmonic phrases that keep your lids from closing. And the album isn't all slow build to nova-bursting intensity; there are also the heavy rhythms and addictive melodies necessary to create traditional rock songs...
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San Francisco Chronicle - "Kim's Top Picks" - Wednesday, November 29th, 2000
December 3: Stratford 4, Pink, Jim Yoshii Pile Up
San Francisco group Stratford 4 swirls into the former Market Street speakeasy with reverby guitars embedded in a wall of Spiritualized-style drone. The moody moments continue with the Oaktown slo-fi pile drivers the Jim Yoshii Pile Up and San Francisco's sample-savvy emo mavens Pink.
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Riffage.com - Featured Artist (featured on Riffage.com (link no longer active, site gone) front door May 1, 2000)
Orchestral noise meets emo-pop in waves of guitar washes from San Francisco's Pink. Their music is soothing, aching, introspective and dramatic, without sacrificing the need to rock. Although they name influences like Sonic Youth and Joy Division, one can't help but end the name "Pink" with the afterthought "Floyd." Beautiful and blissful.
From the San Francisco Bay Guardian - October 27, 1999
...Pink offered an emo-pop that moved from a lulling slumber into explosive jams that ached wistfully with an ineffable need to rock...
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Listen.com's "Editor's Pick" Review
From the ashes of Golden Rod rise Pink, a San Francisco quartet of orchestral noise whose moods are as ever-changing as the population of the city from which they hail. Dusty, Lo-Fi Victrola scratchings blend with backward loops and soothing, ambient, analogue blips as a melodica drones in the distance. Guitar wash comes in like waves and carries the band's musings out to sea. The cathartic crooning of Tim Mitchell is honest and heartfelt as he allows himself to bleed into his songs like nobody was looking. The drumming keeps a slowed heartbeat rhythm with stylish and tasteful fills that still allow you to catch yourself and remember that there is nothing wrong with your breathing. - Eric S.
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