{"id":26741,"date":"2025-08-27T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26741\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T15:21:08","slug":"sharp-pins-announces-new-album-shares-video-for-new-song-i-wanna-be-your-girl-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26741\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Pins Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Song \u201c(I Wanna) Be Your Girl\u201d: Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kai Slater, of the Chicago rock trio <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/lifeguard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lifeguard<\/a>, has announced a new album from his bedroom pop project <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/sharp-pins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sharp Pins<\/a>: <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/sharppins.lnk.to\/balloonx3\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/sharppins.lnk.to\/balloonx3\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/sharppins.lnk.to\/balloonx3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Balloon Balloon Balloon<\/a> is out November 21 (via <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/krecs.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/krecs.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/krecs.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">K<\/a>\/<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.perennialdeath.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.perennialdeath.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.perennialdeath.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perennial<\/a>). Below, watch director <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/gracebaderconrad.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/gracebaderconrad.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/gracebaderconrad.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Bader Conrad<\/a>\u2019s colorful music video for lead single \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/sharppins.lnk.to\/iwannabeyourgirl\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/sharppins.lnk.to\/iwannabeyourgirl\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/sharppins.lnk.to\/iwannabeyourgirl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">(I Wanna) Be Your Girl<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Slater worked on his new album between January and May of this year. He recorded it at his Chicago home and with <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.olympiamusichistory.org\/people\/hayes-waring\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.olympiamusichistory.org\/people\/hayes-waring&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.olympiamusichistory.org\/people\/hayes-waring\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hayes Waring<\/a> at the producer\u2019s Olympia, Washington, studio, Mobile Control.<\/p>\n<p>Slater released his first Sharp Pins album, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/sharppins.bandcamp.com\/album\/turtle-rock\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/sharppins.bandcamp.com\/album\/turtle-rock\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/sharppins.bandcamp.com\/album\/turtle-rock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turtle Rock<\/a>, in 2023, via his own <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.hallogallo.rocks\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.hallogallo.rocks\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hallogallo.rocks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hallogallo Tapes<\/a> label. The next year, he <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7JwNqhrOH2\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7JwNqhrOH2\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7JwNqhrOH2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">self-released<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/sharp-pins-radio-ddr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio DDR<\/a>, before it got <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/krecs.com\/blogs\/k-newsletter\/pre-order-sharp-pins-radio-ddr\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/krecs.com\/blogs\/k-newsletter\/pre-order-sharp-pins-radio-ddr&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/krecs.com\/blogs\/k-newsletter\/pre-order-sharp-pins-radio-ddr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an expanded re-release<\/a>, via K and Perennial, in March.<\/p>\n<p>Slater handles guitar and vocals in Lifeguard. He\u2019s joined in the band by bassist, baritone guitarist, and vocalist Asher Case and drummer and synthesizer player Isaac Lowenstein. Lifeguard released their debut studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/lifeguard-ripped-and-torn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ripped and Torn<\/a>, in June.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Balloon Balloon Balloon<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>01 Popafangout<br \/>02 I Don\u2019t Have the Heart<br \/>03 I Could Find Out<br \/>04 Queen of Globes and Mirrors<br \/>05 (I Wanna) Be Your Girl<br \/>06 Gonna Learn To Crawl<br \/>07 Balloon 1<br \/>08 I Don\u2019t Adore-Youo<br \/>09 All the Prefabs<br \/>10 Talking in Your Sleep<br \/>11 Fall in Love Again<br \/>12 Serene Haus of Hair<br \/>13 (In a While) You\u2019ll Be Mine<br \/>14 Balloon 2<br \/>15 Ex-Priest \/ In a Hole of a Home<br \/>16 Takes So Long<br \/>17 Stop to Say \u201cHello\u201d<br \/>18 All the Shops and Stores Are Closing Now<br \/>19 Maria Don\u2019t<br \/>20 Crown of Thorns<br \/>21 Balloon 3<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kai Slater, of the Chicago rock trio Lifeguard, has announced a new album from his bedroom pop project&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,337,340,836],"class_list":{"0":"post-26741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-new-releases","14":"tag-video"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}