Artists starting with P

Convenience

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Pill, “Convenience” (Mexican Summer, 2016)
Taut, wiry no-wave/postpunk attack here, but they do something distinctive with it. For one, there’s a lot of textural/spatial variation; barbed-wire guitar storms alternate with drumless, almost à capella hauntings. And the gender-identity-as-barroom-brawl turmoil of their very contemporary feminist militancy finds a tight-fitting musical echo in the volatile fluidity of their sound.
Try 5, 6, 7
11/10/16

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Pacific Standard Time

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Poolside, “Pacific Standard Time” (Poolside Music, 2012)
Ultra-listenable contemporary dance music, shimmering and cool while still pumping a compelling pulse. Disco, house, minimal-electro and more, seamlessly fused into a distinctive whole. If you like the more melodic side of electronica/IDM, don’t miss this one.
Try 5, 9. 10
8/29/12

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Tides of Change

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Plexi 3, “Tides of Change” (Certified PR, 2009)
They put out a good single on Dusty Medical Records a few years back, and now here’s the album, and it’s really good. Wendy Norton’s songs in particular are able to fashion the now-familiar garage-punk/girl-group/folk-rock hybrid into something distinctive and original, taking the freshness and spookiness of the source material into a place that’s truly contemporary in its clarity of definition and crisp impact.
A/6 is best; also try A/2, B/6 (the latter listed as B/7 on the label and cover; it’s the sixth banded track on the actual record).
1/11/11

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Destination Ecstacy

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Pink Playground, “Destination Ecstacy” (Mexican Summer, 2011)
Almost absurdly stylized shoegaze music, a purification of the genre to its extreme essence – a kind of “hardcore shoegaze,” if such a thing isn’t a contradiction in terms. Vast caverns of electrified cotton-candy murk, with male and female vocals floating somewhere in the storm. Sweet melodies and driving rhythms, too, in the service of a genuine sense of psychedelic delirium. The Child Molesters once sang about “looking for gurus with pink fuzzy pills”; these guys sound like they found ‘em.
Try A/1, A/3, B/4
11/27/11

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Multiple

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Phil ‘N’ The Blanks, “Multiple” (Pink, 1981)
Chicago club fixture of the new-wave era, they had that classic flat, minimalist mid-tempo rock ‘n’ roll twitch, halfway between power-pop and postpunk, and a wry, cartoonish take on how alienation can be fun and vice-versa in this cold but shiny modern world.
Try 1/ 4, 1/7
4/7/19

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Chirpin’

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Persuasions, “Chirpin’” (Elektra, 1977)
Incredible acapella doo-wop LP, four voices creating a near cathedral-chorus-like intensity that could light up any streetcorner late at night all by itself.
Try 2/ 2, 2/ 5
8/16/15

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Spice Girls

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Period Pains, “Spice Girls” (Damaged Goods, 1997)
Wild-eyed, pop-culture-obsessed Brit girl-punk band, so sped-up and full of innocent bile that they sound like they’re about to fly apart at the seams any minute, but their instinctive rock’n’roll song sense holds them together.
A/1 is best/funniest, but all are terrific fun.
1/11/11

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Race Against Time

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Penetration, “Race Against Time” (Clifdayn, 1979; originally recorded 1977079(
Demos/live retrospective from one of the very greatest first-wave UK punk bands, and one of the very purest representatives of the movement’s idealism. The roaring, anthemic songs and Pauline Murray’s soaring, possessed voice can still make you feel as if this music might have changed the world, had a few contingencies turned in a different direction. That sense of risk, of excitement, remains.
Try 1/1, 1/7, 1/9, 2/3, 2/4
1/12/11

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Talk of the Neighborhood

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Peeps, “Talk of the Neighborhood” (Sympathy, 1990-something)
Really bitchen girl-garage-punk, lean, rockin’, great hook and a local-color story worthy of late-‘50s/early-‘60s radio hits.
Try A/1
1/23/14

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Pebbles

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Pebbles, “Pebbles” (MCA, 1978)
‘90s r & b auteur Babyface’s first protegée, she bounces in clipped yet dulcet voice over a nice assortment of pastel-pulsing post-new-wave synths’n’beats just starting to attain that harder New-Jack edge.
Try 1/1, 2/1
10/2/18

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