Pink Bullet

"“This is the latest offering from local progressive/avant garde rockers Pink Bullet; and I have to say i like it very much indeed. It is very avant garde and progressive and sometimes chaotic, but there is most definitely method behind this madness. Think David Bowie’s Space Oddity blended with some Jefferson Airplane (when they were good) crossed with some very tight avant garde Jazz stabes and Jerky Transitions (the UK’s cardiac’s come’s to mind) and you come up with a deliciously messy wall of incredibly colourful noise.” 2011 Scene Magazine Album Review,pg 28"
- Scene Magazine (Mar 23, 2011) - Scene Magazine

"“This is the latest offering from local progressive/avant garde rockers Pink Bullet; and I have to say i like it very much indeed. It is very avant garde and progressive and sometimes chaotic, but there is most definitely method behind this madness. Think David Bowie’s Space Oddity blended with some Jefferson Airplane (when they were good) crossed with some very tight avant garde Jazz stabes and Jerky Transitions (the UK’s cardiac’s come’s to mind) and you come up with a deliciously messy wall of incredibly colourful noise.” 2011 Scene Magazine Album Review,pg 28"

- Scene Magazine (Mar 23, 2011) - Scene Magazine

Flying the flag for tireless, local rock acts named after vibrators, buff Brisbanites 'Pink Bullet' are at the more hygienic end of the prog rock spectrum: a v-neck onslaught of both brawn and brain. Their sound is a forceful conundrum, not just in size and structure but in appeal: The Alley crowd are many, young and beautiful. Its a gregarious scene, far removed from the solemn appreciation of those socks and sandal types on 'The Old Grey Whistle Test', a TV show which regularly purported the mini rock opera as high art. Yes, prog rock has progressed but the effects can still be alienating. Celebrating the launch of their new EP, 'Salt Vultures', the boys are technically exemplary, armed with a powerhouse of machinery from keyboards and trumpet, to Mars Volta style curdling and a drummer from another planet. The music never becomes any less involving as the set waltzes through sultry balladeering to more affecting, meatier riffage, where even a cover of 'Glory Box' ends up sounding like Robert Plant having an aneurism. - Scene Magazine, Ben Johnson

It’s amazing to see a local band mature and develop into a true musical force. The release of their debut EP will help Pink Bullet cement their status as one of Brisbane’s most unique bands and with any luck, catapult them to the heights of success which they so rightfully deserve. The EP itself is littered with sharp strains of guitar battling heavy blasts of percussion and bass, with the ominous punches of synths and keys attacking from all sides, all thrown together into one tempo-changin’, hair-flailin’ arena of pandemonium.

For fans of The Mars Volta, most things Mike Patton and general mayhem, this shit’s for you. Completing the line-up of this musical battle royale will be Thom Yorke’s unofficial Brisbane protégé Hunz, fuzzed-out electro rockers The Alchemists, and local new-school rock’n’rollers The Grove, who are all out to prove the depth of the local music scene. - fourthousand.com.au

Pink Bullet
Pink Bullet

Pink Bullet ought to offer a dollar collar with each disc since this rollercoaster EP is apt to cause severe whiplash. These herky-jerky balls-to-the-wall compositions are deviously disorientating on first listen, but eventually coalesce into a Mars Volta/ Mr. Bungle hybrid.
Slashing guitars careen all over the joint with the bass and drums supporting them like lunatic circus jugglers. Then, bam! Here comes an ominous Goth-inflected segment that slowly builds intensity until all hell breaks loose. Imagine a David Bowie and Carlos Alamar RIO excursion. Complex Stuttering rhythmic structures are executed with mind-numbing precision but still exude a reckless punk attitude.
Chris Bartlett and Maurice Moynihan bellow, whine and howl over this psychedelic thrashcore din as if they could lose it any second. Every insane minute is chock full of high quality madness.
Pink Bullet is many things, but one thing it’s not is boring. If these Aussies can produce more than 20 minutes of this, they will most assuredly be a force to reckon with.

- Warren Barker
Progression Magazine winter/spring 2009
- Progression Magazine