Information Retrieved

From start to finish, Information Retrieved sounds confident and deliberate, a consummate release from two deft musicians who’ve made every note count.

Information Retrieved achieves an interesting balance between showcasing Pinback’s unique take on classic indie rock and offering something that’s immediately familiar, something with the air of an old acquaintance

For an album of such wide-open sounds and ideas, Information Retrieved has a true knack for living in, and succeeding on, the smallest of details.

The change becomes Pinback rather well, with newfound self-assurance adding warmth to their melodic nous: sweet and soulful.

While it may be an album with a fairly prescribed pattern, it’s one that is done so well and embellished so cutely, that it leaves you feeling an enormous sense of contentment. The contentment of hearing a good job done well.

Clouds in the sky is one of the better analogies about what makes yet another solid Pinback album work so well. It might all look pretty similar up there from day to day, but to not give each version a chance would be to really miss out.

There's something inherently nostalgic about Information Retrieved delivering exactly what you'd expect. 

There’s a perversity to Information’s lack of dynamic that leaves it feeling not only flat, but maddeningly so.

Pinback are curious in their un-trendy cleanness in an indie-rock era more pervasively interested in noise or haziness, but a lot of the time, this album doesn’t do enough to sound much more than merely pleasant.

It is not often that you hope a band will stop playing to their strengths, but Information Retrieved leaves Pinback needing to do something unpredictable.

Even the most ardent of fans may find themselves somewhat irked to be given essentially the same album, from the same band for the fourth time.

Every listen to Pinback’s latest record is so forgettable due to its insistence on treading familiar ground track after track that you may as well have never heard it at all.