Shearing Pinx are an Experimental

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

/Punk rock

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 band from Vancouver

Vancouver

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, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

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. Formed in 2005, the band is made up of Nic Hughes (Vocals/Guitar) and Jeremy Van Wyck (Drums).

The band has over 50 releases including vinyl records, cassettes and CDs, most of which are on singer Nic Hughes' own record label Isolated Now Waves.

The band is often associated with The Emergency Room

The Emergency Room

The Emergency Room was an underground venue, recording studio and art space located in the Strathcona neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in January 2007, The Emergency Room emerged from Vancouver's DIY music scene and has been used as a practice space, art studio,...

 venue in Vancouver and were featured in an article about Vancouver's "Weird Punk Scene" in the Canadian Music Newspaper Exclaim!

Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists...

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Albums

Date of release	Title	Record label
2006	Caves	DNT Records
2007	Poison Hands	Gilgongo Records
2007	Ultra Snake	Isolated Now Waves/Endless Latino
2007	Untitled Shearing Pinx/Silver Daggers Silver Daggers Silver Daggers were an American Synthpunk/noise rock band formed in 2003. Known for combining intense, atonal music with post-apocalyptic political ideas, they form part of the circle of musicians in close affiliation with The Smell.-Discography:...  Split	Arbor
2008	Breath of You Came Through Shearing Pinx / Mutators Split	Ugly Pop
2008	Haruspex	Divorce Records
2008	Iseult	Broadway to Boundary
2008	Untitled Shearing Pinx / Stamina Mantis Split	Reluctant Records
2009	Weaponry	Divorce
2010	Void White	Isolated Now Waves
2011	Night Danger	Divorce

Split Cassettes

Length	Artists	Record label
C20	Shearing Pinx / KK Rampage	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Pretty Thigh	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Ikebana	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Modern Creatures	Isolated Now Waves
C22	Shearing Pinx / Animale	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / The White Tiger Prepade	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Grey Daturas Grey Daturas Grey Daturas were a noise rock band from Melbourne Australia known to have formed on stage at their debut live performance at The North Melbourne Town Hall Hotel, in August 2001. The band's final live performance coincided with the closure of the original Tote Hotel in Melbourne on Friday 15...	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Twin	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Soft Shoulder	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / F.M.G.	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Monosodic	Isolated Now Waves
C30	Shearing Pinx / Bestia Ferida	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Shivers	Isolated Now Waves
C26	Shearing Pinx / Midwife	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Shpilberg	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Worms In Dirt	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Starving Weirdos	Isolated Now Waves
C20	Shearing Pinx / Bot	Isolated Now Waves

Compilations

Title	Artists	Format	Record label
Short Attention Span	Shearing Pinx / Mongst / Mutators / Japanther / Fat Day / Foot Village / Finally Punk / Total Abuse / Best Fwends / Barf Bag / many more	Freebie MP3	Methodist Leisure Inc.
Muisica Moche	Shearing Pinx / Soft Shoulder / Lord Galvar	VHS	DNT Records
Pregnant With Sound, Vol.1	Shearing Pinx / V/A	CD	Entertainment Records
Repetition Cntrl Waves	Shearing Pinx / Nons / Defektors / Automatic Fancy / Mutators / Hustler White / Ixquic / Podmind / Zeus / In Flux / Slums / The Ewoks	CD	Isolated Now Waves
Happy Birthday DNT	Shearing Pinx / Health HEALTH (band) Health is an American noise rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band's 2007 release with Crystal Castles charted at position nine in the UK indie singles chart.- History :... / Pretty Thigh / Channels 3x4	CD	DNT
East Coast vs. West Coast	Shearing Pinx / Mutators / Modern Creatures / Nü Sensae / Be Bad / Hamborghinni / Attack Mode	Cassette	Divorce Records
I Ate Your Legs	Shearing Pinx / Nü Sensae / Twin Crystals / Talbot Tagora / Certain Breeds / The Doers / Channels 3x4 / Stamina Mantis / Nihilist Party / Blackmage / Christ In A Bucket and The Sons of Cock / Treasure Mammal / AD / Mattress / Hepitidal Wave / Derek Champion / Aeorosol Constellations / Dullmoofs / N.213 / Perilisk / Empty Love	CD	Thankless Records