Will Pinfold
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Salutations! I am Will/William (no preference)I have liked music and writing more than nearly everything else for as long as I can remember and eventually combined the two, though later than I should have, probably.I have been a Staff Writer for Zero Tolerance magazine for ages and have been/am a reviewer in various other places, including my website which I don’t update as often as I mean to.I got involved with Echoes & Dust because I like reading it, so thought I’d see if they would like me writing for it. I also like semi-colons because they allow me to extend sentences indefinitely; I know it’s annoying.A list of key people and things I like, in chronological order of my discovery of them is probably available on request (I am that kind of person) but it’s always ongoing; in retrospect every era is a ‘golden age’ of something and now is presumably no different. We will find out which golden age it was later. I was really sad when Bowie died.I studied art history, but spend more time accumulating records, books and comics than I do in galleries these days. I would like to accumulate guitars and paintings and so forth as well, but I’d have to be a bit wealthier to do that. I like to hear anything experimental, avant-garde, intelligent and non-generic but have to admit I also have a weakness for actually-very-generic-indeed black metal, bog-standard 70s funk and anything involving Morrissey. There are many kinds of music whose appeal I just don’t get, but I am willing to be convinced, except with house music.I occasionally go to gigs and such, but to be honest I’ve become a little bit sceptical about the virtues of live music of late; blasphemy I’m sure. My prized possessions include a signed Daniel Johnston 7” and a Japanese Zen-on Tradition electric guitar from 1965 and although apparently shy and retiring/haughty and snooty I am mostly a friendly sort of fellow, so feel free to say hello!
Articles by Will Pinfold
Good, vibrant and definitely fun; not life-changing, but Vivienne The Witch probably don’t expect it to be. By Will Pinfold
It would be perverse to say that Piano Mating is good or bad; the key to the album is that it has the power to reflect the listener’s mood; it can be intense, powerful, oppressive or a boring endurance test. While it’s playing it simply is, in a way that’s probably best appreciated by fans of extreme, non-dramatic noise. By Will Pinfold
This album feels something like a return to form, rather than a startling new phase; which is perhaps just another way of saying ‘one for the fans’. No bad thing though, not a completely unqualified triumph perhaps, but things are back where they should be; when the Richie Hawtin album you most want to hear is his next one. By Will Pinfold
