Canshaker Pi

The Disastrous Leap. The Glorious Demise. A Canshaker Pi show is actually one stunning kamikaze manoeuvre. With a handful of highly flammable guitar pop, this young Amsterdam quartet is a master of the art and flying: pounding, spluttering, wrestling and bouncing... and that until the last drop of sweat flows! Unfortunately, this young enthusiasm has an expiration date for every soul. That is why Canshaker Pi pursues it like a maniac.

Songs like Shaniqua and Looking For Love In Ibiza evoke both recognition and confusion. The latter borrows from the Outkast hit Hey Ya and the title of the EP hilariously refers to a quote by survival expert Ed Stafford. Anyway, the Canshakers draw inspiration from everything that is loose and fixed, as long as it serves their playful diction. No surprise then that Pavement frontman Stephen Malkmus was quite charmed by Canshaker Pi's idiosyncratic, noisy indie pop. Producer and good friend Remko Schouten brought Malkmus to the Netherlands to work with the band in the studio.

That expiration date was of course a plot to sell us the craze of the day. Three albums later, Canshaker Pi's songs still expertly tear apart every stage, dance floor or five-star review. No sturm und drang fence can withstand this unifying violence.