PCP is a musical experience in the truest sense of the term, an instrumental trio that creates music spontaneously in the studio, usually in one take with no editing or overdubs.
The solid rhythm section of Derrin Pinto & Michael Cassidy provides backbone, but it's serpentine to be sure, redirecting on a dime to send the music off into uncharted waters and letting us know the journey's not over as soon as we think we've caught the groove. Guitarist Trevin Pinto paints over top of the beats & grooves with equal parts insinuating funk and arena bombast, slinking through songs like a phantom one moment, chugging through your guts like a freight train the next.
This brand of inventiveness might make a lesser outfit crash & burn under the weight of its ideas, but PCP rides the razor-edge, never falling into predictability, tiptoeing along the precipice to chaos, but never caving in.
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