The Pink Stains: Diana’s Seatbelt
(Self Launched)
DL/Streaming
Out Now
Arguably representing in 2025 what ESG, Ludus or Au Pairs offered in 1981, on Diana’s Seatbelt, the brand new single from Manchester’s Pink Stains – the psychological automotive crash, over the cliffs of, and into the bridges of, what up to date tradition’s fearmongers ensnare us with, is a scrumptious monitor refining their idea of cyborgian housewifery into new grooves of interlocking, vacuum packed chew and spacious, psychedelia. By Ryan Walker.
The query stays, then, what do they signify?
From earlier singles Fluid, Model, TV Static, and Freezer Jesus, the lyrical and musical lexicon of the Pink Stains is one that’s everlastingly the identical, but everlastingly shapeshifting. It thaws on the open-front, multi-deck show fridges on variously titled grocery store aisles. Aisle 1: Intercourse. Aisle 2: Battle. Aisle 3: Picture. Aisle 4: Cash. Aisle 5: Know-how. Aisle 6: Artwork. Aisle 7: Movie star. Aisle 8: Energy. Or perhaps they’re all the identical. Spilling into the identical spot. A puddle of destruction we, the idiots, the viewers, slip upon regardless of the moist ground indicators erected on it’s place as a warning of what’s to come back.
Societal collision.
That is the paradox of tradition. It strikes at a pace that always seems like making an attempt to flee an insane asylum with amber cells, but blink, and a complete gentle 12 months has handed, whereby the institutional headquarters that dictate how we understand ourselves, and due to this fact, different individuals, stand as a forsaken acropolis of disdainful, magical trickery.
Greater than a picture, a ruminative thought, a fleeting chance, have a look exterior, and stroll right into a world now past the capability of being spared – a cartoon, sensory assault system whereby one set of expectations outweighs the opposite. Societal collision. A crossing with out visitors lights. Everybody wanting down. Avoiding eye contact. Open areas flip to glass traps. Mirrors flip to triggers. And in-between the paradoxical vice-like grip of the chasm, the precise midway level with the rock on one aspect and the laborious place on the opposite, are our jabbering heads, exploding like an episode of psychic mutation by the hands of one among Cronenberg’s Scanners. The scene is actual. The scene is on-line, exterior, all the time. All the time crashing in the identical automotive.
What then, extending the metaphor, in both driver or passenger seat, is the pinnacle to be positioned between? Take your decide. Between abstinence and annihilation, between intercourse and spectacle of demise. Teams of peacekeeping activists and outspoken allies, and ‘teams of gangs like headless chickens’ and teams with out ‘thought put into their actions, launching missiles in each route’, complete civilisations starved to demise and a tyrannical circus tent of ‘wealthy cunts making billions from environmental crimes’. Factions of our nation’s once-favourite televisual treasures protected as passionately as an endangered species of unique fowl are actually rounded up and rightfully persecuted as a result of ‘there’s bigots and there’s fascists they usually put them on TV’. Successions of people in search of connection, but paradoxically sever all ties with humankind, buried alive behind closed doorways, immunised by spell of feedback, updates, profiles, phantom personalities reeking of the intoxicating attract of a day with out time within the non-public wilderness.
And what can we do?
We now have a cup of tea – as a result of Google says that’s a treatment for most cancers, and the explanation you’re ‘ADHD mind’ (Google it) has each tab open and some fuses blown. We keep at dwelling. We wait. We do all we will.
In a ‘world more and more consumed by worry, misinformation, and division’, the place a ‘ethical panic gripping society and the metaphorical automotive crash of tradition, politics, and human connection’, is as rampant as the craze virus and main us in direction of world extinction, Manchester’s Pink Stains, in all their textural, humid nowhere house, in all their free, lubricated dance-punk grooves and primal, howl, remind us, their ‘voice is the final one you’ll ever hear.’
Could as effectively unfasten the seatbelt, the airbag does fuck all.
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