Earthkeeper

Critic Score
Based on 4 reviews
User Score
Based on 110 ratings
August 29, 2025 / Release Date
LP / Format
Hopeless / Label
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Critic Reviews

80
Kerrang!
Pinkshiftโ€™s second album is a significant level-up thatโ€™s a complex cocktail of rage, vulnerability and determination.
70
Distorted Sound

Overall, Earthkeeper is a very good album, especially for a band who are still early in their career.

HomeSession3
80

LOOKING AHEAD

Pinkshift is a Baltimore-based band that offers an EmoCore/Punk interpretation of their own mosaic of anxiety, anguish, pain, and hope.

A self-critical look at personal and existential experiences through themes such as loss, individual purpose, and the concept of a stable life crumbling before one's eyes.

A band that boasts more than two years of incessant touring alongside bands like Mannequin Pussy, PUP, Pussy Riot, and Origami Angel, through which they have grown, ... read more

Nujabes_lover
100

I am in genuine AWE at this album, oh my GOD is this fucking beautiful, I don't even know what about it makes it so amazing, like I've heard plenty of stuff similar to this, but this feels different, HOW? I encourage ALL of you to tap in on this, probably the greatest decision I've ever made.

chaz
64

Quite the switchup from their last album, almost as much as the switchups they do on this album. The changes from metallic pop punk to deftones worship is quite the whiplash and I'm not too sure they know what sound they want to go for here. I like the instrumentation and metalgaze has always held a special place in my heart no matter the singers, I just wish there was a bit more memorability when it came to individual songs as they can blend in a bit x3

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1MinuteReviews
80

Alt metal album filled with emotionally moving performances.
Fav: Patience

saintsoap
40

mmmmm nah. this pivot into super generic hardcore loses basically everything i liked about this band. it's well executed for what it is, but what it is isn't interesting to me

i liked the singer's snarly snotty singing on the last couple releases and they dont do a whole lot of melody on this one

the indian influences are also gone, at least what i heard of them. if thats something they only planned on doing for one album thats fine i guess but i feel like theres so much more ... read more

scarliee
100

Perfection

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