"A fluorescent fever dream… Pinc Louds have gone from Tompkins Square Park legends to full-on art-rock prophets.”
Pinc Louds does not exist.
If you have seen a band performing some sort of soulful-punky-doo-wop show in a New York City park, subway station, or bar, please seek professional help immediately.
Reports of this mass hallucination began in late 2015, primarily at the Delancey St. subway station, where witnesses occasionally reported hearing a lone pink blur wailing heart-wrenching songs about snow, baseball catchers, and roaches.
Over the years, the hallucination appears to have become increasingly elaborate. Sightings now sometimes involve as many as five musicians, elaborate costumes, and enormous puppets, including “F the F Train” and “Howl-iday Wolf.”
There have also been persistent rumors that Pinc Louds somehow “saved summer” during the COVID-19 pandemic by playing regularly in Tompkins Square Park at a time when New York’s music venues were closed and people were desperately in need of live music. These claims remain unsubstantiated.
Equally dubious are reports of Pinc Louds touring throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America, or somehow transforming their immersive performances into three alleged albums that are more an experience than a collections of songs.
None of this happened.
Pinc Louds is not a band. Pinc Louds is not real. You did not see them on the subway.
If you believe otherwise, please seek help immediately.
These words do not exist.
“Claudi is a colorful and original amalgam of her loves and influences: ’20s jazz… “obviously, Billie Holiday… doo-wop… punk...” Put that together in the body of a gender-bending Latinx artist obsessed with children’s books and possessed of unfettered, unrestrained creativity and you get Pinc Louds.”
- The Village Voice
Photo: Bob Krasner