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On Pascal Pinon s Tumblr you ll find an older photo that shows twin
sisters J fr dur and sthildur smiling proudly over a Yamaha keyboard
circa 1999: Back then they weren t even in their teens, far from it, and
yet they were already shaping and creating that unique chemistry a
special bond that can only exist between siblings, twins especially. It
is a very special connection, a rare gift to know another person on that
level. And of course the old keyboard is also still around
Thanks to this special bond, Pascal Pinon have managed to record a
second album that s way more bold, more mature, more focused and more
diverse than its predecessor: I don t need anything/I just make
something beautiful, they sing on Therney (and they do sing in
English more often than before), and apart from their own bedroom
studio, equipped with cookies and tea and keyboards and guitars and
such, they indeed don t seem to need much to create a sense of
homecoming a musical home stretch, like a movie s closing credits
Here you are, in a realm where everything seems to have fallen into
place, or will do so soon enough, somehow
And yet, this is merely the start of album #2: Having successfully
toured Japan and other places, it s not always three-minute songs for
Pascal Pinon; sometimes a few moments are sufficient to create a certain
mood ( Annar Logi ). Whereas album opener Ekki Vanmeta appears to be
the Icelandic equivalent to a block party (no BBQ, but with muffins
instead, the type they served at their very first gig ever, fittingly
called The Friendly Gig ), the Bloom is intricately moving along and
shape-shifting like Gavin Bryars compositions though J fr dur
familiar with the instrument for 10 years, manages to ultimately turn it
into something else: It s easy to become attached, they sing. And it
is indeed
Still a four-piece when they recorded their s/t debut album although
the band name always indicated that the twins were in fact the heads of
the operation: Pasqual Pinon (spelled like this), the Two-Headed Mexican
(1889-1929), was a sideshow attraction in the early 1900s , Pascal
Pinon is now essentially comprised of J fr dur and sthildur, with
occasional help by Krist n (and then there s also casual member Sylv a);
together they have created a many-layered soundtrack to growing up on a
volcanic island in the Atlantic: A small world of its own, with all its
marvels, all its Good and Bad Things (though still untouched by
McDonald s, trains, and Starbucks). Even the fact that they used more
than one microphone this time around does not take away from the
characteristic DIY approach often found in Iceland s bedrooms
With album #2 about to drop, Pascal Pinon are about to enter adult life
a point usually associated with drifting apart, forgetting dreams
These girls, however, seem to be going the other direction instead: they
appear to be closer, even more of an entity of its own, more of a
two-headed being, less lonesome, but twosome, unified in sound