Thanx to Ed from Ed's bootlegs, there's a live registration of a couple of songs of our CD RELEASE PARTY (25th of april 2009- sojo club)  for the latest PN 'from what rivers have to offer' album...you can watch it on youtube by clickin' on this link :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irJjwUrROyM&feature=autofb

Enjoy!

P N

 

From AARDSCHOK MAGAZINE, issue nr 7 (30e jaargang), juli 2009
PN
'From What Rivers Have To Offer'
Funtime rcs/Suburban distributie
Al voordat je ook maar één noot gehoord hebt van het nieuwe PN-album, krijg je al het idee een bijzonder plaatje in handen te hebben.  Het zit namelijk verpakt in een eenvoudig houten doosje, met het minimalistische artwork erin gebrand.  Daarbinnen zit de CD zelf tussen een als tekstvel/poster bedrukt stuk bruin pakpapier.  Ook muzikaal is er weinig conventioneels aan dit zevende album van de Belgen.  Genregrenzen?  Hokjes?  Labeltjes?   Dat soort onzin is aan de heren niet besteed.   Al komt de term 'post-emo-hardcore' die ze zelf gebruikten met betrekking tot de vorige plaat 'Through satin veils gropes desire' een aardig eind in de richting. Ze gooien werkelijk de meest uiteenlopende invloeden bij elkaar.   Zo neigt een aantal nummers richting postcore, maar heeft 'stone roses, dead gardens' eerder een Kyuss-vibe.  En het poëtische titelnummer , waarop ingetogen piano en viool gastzangeres Annelies Tanghe begeleiden , klinkt weer subtiel en breekbaar.  Het eindresultaat klinkt wonderwel een stuk samenhangender dan je zou verwachten.  Al met al een mooi contrastrijk plaatje, dat zo aan de haal kan met Rivella slogan 'een beetje vreemd, maar wel lekker!'
78
Diana Willms

From UP MAGAZINE, issue nr 58, juli 2009
PN
'From What Rivers Have To Offer'*
Funtime records
PN heeft alweer 17 jaar op de teller staan.  Je zou het de sympathieke band niet geven, want het zevende studio album klinkt als het werk van een stel jonge honden.   Voor wie niet bekend is met het oeuvre van de band : PN maakt atmosferische rock/metal, in het verlengde van bands als Tool en A Perfect Circle.  De Belgische formatie heeft in de vorm van Johan Quinten een begenadigd zanger in de gelederen die diepe schreeuwzang moeiteloos afwisselt met melancholische vocalen.   'From What Rivers Have To Offer' is een huiveringwekkend mooi album met een intense sfeer.  Geen langspeler die je elke dag opzet, maar wel een tijdloze klassieker die nog vaak uit de platenkast gehaald gaat worden.
87
Frank van de Ven

From MASS MOVEMENT (uk zine and webzine)
PN – From What Rivers Have To Offer CD (Funtime)
The walls have now truly been broken. Belgian band PN have always been about letting emotions prevail above what was deemed normal in punk rock land. With ‘Through Satin Veils Gropes Desire’ from 2006, the path of golden bricks was lain. And still, as good as that record was, something could have been tuned a bit better. That something must have been the feeling you have when experiencing something for the first time… the first kiss, that first ray of sun on your skin after a long winter, the first time you taste ice cream. ‘From What Rivers Have To Offer’ is even closer to the heart. It took two years in writing, and the band wanted to keep the dynamics of that ‘first time’ right by recording things live in the studio as much as possible. With PN you never talk about just music, lyrics, or the comparison to other bands. They have their hearts on their sleeves, pour everything into the music like rivers to the sea. Everything is allowed: melody, cacophonia, desperate screams, angelic voices, strings, and piano. Eight pieces of art wrapped up gracefully in a wooden cigar box. It’s even in the artwork the love is felt.
MW

From DREUN.BE Webzine
PN
From What Rivers Have To Offer
Het is doorgaans niet mijn gewoonte om de sigaren boven te halen tijden het bespreken van cd's. Maar in het geval van PN gaat het moeilijk anders. De cd steekt namelijk niet in een ordinair doosje, wel in een speciaal sigarenkistje. Origineel en leuk. Dat geldt ook voor de acht nummers op dit inmiddels al zevende album van deze landgenoten. Voorganger 'Through Satin Veils Gropes Desire' liet er geen twijfel over bestaan: PN is echt wel goed bezig. Openingstrack "Let The Muse Respond" wisselt tussen hardcore en melodieuze, sferische metal maar daarna breekt de plaat open. "Stone Roses, Dead Gardens" is fantastsiche stoner song die toch de typische PN vocalen van Johan Quinten kent: aggressief in de refreinen en melodieus en warm tijdens de rest van de song. "Pull Out of This Story" laat een gevoeligere kant van de groep zien maar past volledig bij de overige nummers. Hoogtepunt is ongetwijfeld het titelnummer. De aanzet met enkele pianoaanslagen, de ontroerende guestzang van Annelies Tanghe, de violen die net op het juiste moment passeren,... Ronduit zalig. maakt op dit album vooral goeie muziek maar toont ook hoe je enkele niet voor de hand liggende genres mengt tot een geweldig geheel. Dit is zonder twijfel een van de betere releases van dit jaar.
Bart Maurissen

From RIF RAF MUSICZINE
PN
'From What Rivers Have To Offer'
Funtime Records
De gebroeders Johan en Bert Quinten blijven productief.  Na de recente release van de Homer-plaat 'Wasteland Reflections', hebben ze nu ook een nieuwe PN cd klaar.   Uiteraard mogen de andere PN-bandleden, drummer Jurgen en bassist Jimmy, niet over het hoofd gezien worden. Zij eisen op 'Wat rivers have to offer' een plekje op de voorgrond op, hoewel de plaat behoorlijk typisch PN materiaal bevat.  Dat betekent een intelligente en kruidige mix van (post)hardcore, metal en melodieuze pop.   Of er een causaal verband bestaat tussen de sound en de meer naar de voorgrond getreden ritmesectie weten we niet, maar in deze cd zit een heel dikke vinger Queens of the Stone Age - wat uiteraard het algemene geluid ten goede komt.  De twee echte hoogtepunten van deze plaat worden ironisch genoeg aangebracht door niet-PN'ers.  Enerzijds is er het prachtige en ingetogen titelnummer waarvoor de stem van Annelies Tanghe en de viool van Beatrijs de Klerck werden ingehuurd.  Anderzijds geeft het door Hanna Maes ontworpen artwork 'From What Rivers Have To Offer' een uniek en klassevol cachet. (dg)

From: REVU Magazine

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From: 'out of step' zine

PN – From what rivers have to offer
CD 2009 Funtime Records
This 7th PN release became something special. Not only do they have a regular edition but ‘from what rivers have to offer is also released as a limited wooden box edition and it looks awesome. This special edition and the ‘less is more type of artwork fits PN’s music nicely.
Still rooted in hardcore, punk rock and metal PN follows it’s own path. For ‘from what rivers have to offer’ they even added a more Indy rock, poppy sound to their already broad inspired groovy atmospheric sound. This is illustrated the best with the title track in the middle of the album; it has Annelies Tanghe on vocals. The song is the best example of how silence can express a strong feeling. PN really surprised me with this release and to be honest I really like it. The two-year break at the end of 2006 paid off. 8.5/10

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From www.concreteweb.be

Band: PN
Album title: From What Rivers Have To Offer
Label: Funtime Records
Distributor: Suburban
Release date: 30/04/2009
Release: CD

Now what more can be said about PN without falling into superlatives and national chauvenistism? I mean, in their genre they are quite unique in Belgium. They started back in Autumn 1992, the original bandname being Portie Nootjes and playing a somewhat "simpler" mixture of punk Rock and Hardcore, primarily influenced by the likes of Bad Religion (and other more "complex" Hardcore acts). However, from the start it was clear that this band would not be limited to any musical constraints, the individual musicians wanting to incorporate additional influences as their progress as musicians would allow it!

As it so happens, I've followed this band from its humble beginnings, and after a couple of demos followed December 1996's Romance, which already showed an extra hint of Metal influences which impressed enough people to allow PN to play a shitload of shows all over Bellgium. The ensuing Daybreak Serenity (released late 1998)showed a shift in the band's influences towards a mixture of Newschool Hardcore and passionate, emotionally driven vocals. In January 1999 the band records 3 tracks for a split with Reply, Circle, and Exit Nineteen, the songs showing a further shift of influences, the vocals becoming even more emotional and driven (say Screamo for good measure). During 2000 the band records for the first time with Dirk Miers at his Dé Studio, and although the resulting album was still loàded with melody, Our Pitiful Paradise became the most heavy outing PN made up to that moment! One year later PN is again in the studio, this time to combine half a dozen new songs with live videos recorded at the 2000 Pukkelpop gig to make the Dreamwave Heroes mini-CD. Working up to the next recording, PN slow down their concert agenda booking, thus freeing time to work more elaborately on new material.and late 2002's 6-tracker The Art Of Being We clearly shows the effort put into the album, with traces of the progressive influences from such artists as Neurosis.or rather early Isis (it even impresses enough to entice US label Life Sentence into licencing the mini-album, PN recording some extra songs and adding the Dreamwave Heroes EP to make this US release a bit more interesting). In early 2004 PN feels like experimenting a bit, and invites piano player Tom Bessemans to the rehearsal studio. Re-arranging some old songs and writing a couple of new semi-acoustic tracks, the band plays this set during a special 5-gig tour, recording the last session at Hasselt's Muziek-O-Droom venue to become the track-list for the September 2005 released live album Live At The MOD. 2006 sees the band venture in an even wider array of calm-versus-aggressive music, adding more and more Progressive and atmospheric elements into that year's album Through Satin Veil Gropes Desire. Personally, I liked what I heard só much that, having already bought the CD, I also hunted down a copy of the vinyl version of the album!

The new album is very much a continuation of the band's drift to experimentation (during 2007 and 2008, they've put together quite a few ideas, dismissed just as many, and were left with something that is unparalleled in their career), although I'm sure many people already familiar with the band's previous releases might lift an eyebrow or two at a first listening session! Let's go over the album track-by-track, shall we? "Let The Muse Respond" opens the album with an atmopheric intro (including also djembe play) before growing into a Progressive mid-paced Post-Hardore tainted passage with lead singer Johan Quinten's clean vocals contrasting against his brother (also the guitarist of the band) Bert's shouted growls (he also puts in a couple of clean backings though).and ending with something which is actually rather close to Stoner Rock/ Metal! The ensuing "Stone Roses, Dead Gardens" sees that Stoner-style return, evidently with a very pominent bass, and again with contrasting vocals. These two heavier tracks past, it's time for a calmer interlude, starting with the beautiful "Pull Out Of This Story" (during which Bert's backing vocals are clean only). The ensuing album title track is the one that might have you being amazed at first listen, as it's an acoustic track in which the music is provided by Bert playing piano, and one Beatrijs De Klerck doing the same with her violin. Vocals on this track are done entirely by one Annelies Tanghe, a young Leuven based artist with the sexiest raspy/ hoarse voice you've ever heard (formerly of Rock act JinXS, she also contributed backing vocals to the song "De Laatste Keer on the 2008 Nagelbijter album of DutchPop singer Sam Janssens - currently going under the nickname of Iza, she should have her debut solo effort out soon.and you can be sure I'll be one of the many people wanting to check that out. Now if that stirred your interest, check out myspace.com/tangheannelies), even if the somewhat sedate song is also the most melancholic one on the album! "Unleash The Lions" continues in the calmer vein, although with somewhat more distorted guitar (not quite atmospheric, but not quite heavy either), and the nicest "ooh-ooh" backings you've ever heard this band do! A return to the atmospherically calm/heavy repetitive/ Progressive comes with the ensuing "How Can I Be You", which has a focal role for the more aggressive vocals, even if Johan still brings in a couple of clean passages as well! Actually, there's even a passage where the two blend together with a third, weirdly monotonous/ melancholic, one. The heavy atmospheric mood continues with Favours And Favourites", for which part of Johan's clean vocals were put through a vocoder; second vocals are courtesy of a raging Bert again! This track being 6:43 long (longest on the album) then allows for a calmer (2-minute) interlude (during which the vocoder is switched off), but again grows towards an explosion of emotions towards the end of the song! Album closing track ("What," you'll say, "that soon?".well, the album only lasts just under 34 minutes, would you believe?) "Mise En Abime" is an atmospheric instrumental, in which the starring role is first laid upon bassist Jimmy Van Rietvelde (drummer Jurgen Vermaelen showing considerable and admirable restraint throughout the track), the guitarist playing at that moment rather etherically. When the latter comes to the fore halfway the track (which is only 128 seconds in length anyway) the bass still remains poundingly present, albeit in atmospheric terms!

For a preview of the new material, you can surf to myspace.com/pn666, where the band not only posted a 3-minutes album teaser, but also the full "How Can I Be You", and a pre-production version of the track "Stone Roses, Dead Gardens" (funny how that song grew.or rather, was cut down to the essensials.with time). Not much no go on? Well, if PN is new to you, there's also 3 additional tracks off previous albums! I've always had a special place for this band in my heart, even at the very beginning, but I have to admit it's the band's musical prowess which won me over to including their material in my year-lists! By the way, the copy Johan handed me over came in a somewhat weird package, with the album wrapped in a poster-size packing paper, laid in a cigar box with the essential artwork printed on. Nice, very nice.but I suppose it's a limited edition of the album! Can't wait to go get myself a vinyl copy of the album as well!

98/100

Tony.

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From www.digg.be

PN: From What Rivers Have To Offer  ALBUM VAN DE WEEK
Funtime Records, 2009

Voor Digg*ers van: de gebroeders Quinten, metal en hardcore

Het gaat al geruime tijd goed met de Vlaamse muziekscène. En nee, we hebben het nu niet over Milk Inc. en konsoorten, maar over échte muziek. Vorig jaar kregen we al prachtige platen van ondermeer Amen Ra, Maudlin en The Black Heart Rebellion voorgeschoteld, dit jaar is het de beurt aan het Brabantse PN. De band rond de broers Johan 'Jokke' (zang) en Bert Quinten (gitaar), beiden ook actief in de punkrockformatie Homer, timmert al bijna vijftien jaar lang aan de weg en heeft op die tijd een serieuze back catalogue opgebouwd. Hoewel ze bij het grote publiek nooit écht zijn doorgebroken, kunnen ze op een trouwe fanbasis rekenen. En terecht, want de meningen over 'Through Satin Veils Gropes Desire', de laatste studioplaat van de band, waren unaniem lovend. Daardoor kwam de lat voor diens opvolger des te hoger te liggen.

Gelukkig beschikt PN, in tegenstelling tot heel wat andere (lees: bekendere) groepen, over genoeg knowhow en klasse om bij elke plaat vooruitgang te boeken. Dat bewijzen ze dan ook met hun nieuwste album, 'From What Rivers Have To Offer'. Volgens hun MySpace-pagina speelt PN een mix van hardcore en metal. En inderdaad, 'From What Rivers Have To Offer' biedt voor elk wat wils. 'Let The Muse Respond' en 'Stone Roses, Dead Gardens' zullen zowel door stoner-als metalfans gesmaakt worden, terwijl PN in 'How Can I Be You?' (onze favoriet) en 'Favours and Favourites' de postcore-toer opgaat. 'Pull Out Of This Story' en (vooral) titeltrack 'From What Rivers Have To Offer' leggen dan weer de meer ingetogen kant van de band bloot. Voor laatstgenoemde song deed PN een beroep op de Leuvense Annelies Tanghe, als soloartieste ook wel bekend als IZA. Toen we dit nummer voor het eerst hoorden, dachten we zowaar even dat PN Lou Rhodes van Lamb had weten te strikken. Wát een stem!!!

Maar ook de vocals van Johan Quinten doen daar niet voor onder: zijn cleane zangstem doet ons zelfs terugdenken aan de tijd dat John Garcia met wijlen Kyuss menig podia onveilig maakte. Tevens beschikt hij over een oerkreet die zonder de minste moeite een beer uit zijn winterslaap zou kunnen wekken. De andere muzikanten weten trouwens ook goed waar ze mee bezig zijn. Sla er daarvoor de lekker lang uitgesponnen instrumentale outro (inclusief een vette dubbele baspartij) van 'Favours and Favourites' maar eens op na. Jammer genoeg duren lange liedjes nooit lang, want na dik dertig minuten en acht songs zit 'From What Rivers Have To Offer' er al op.

'From What Rivers Have To Offer' van PN verveelt geen nanoseconde. Meer nog: in onze ogen (en oren) kan de band zich zonder blikken of blozen met meer internationale acts meten. Op de korte duur van de plaat na, hebben we dan ook hoegenaamd niks aan te merken op 'From What Rivers Have To Offer'. Dat PN ook oog voor detail heeft, bewijst de verpakking en het artwork van 'From What Rivers Have To Offer'. Elk album steekt namelijk in een houten sigarendoosje, waardoor de plaat al snel een heus hebbeding pleegt te worden. Klasse!!!

www.funtimerecords.com/pn
www.myspace.com/pn666
Door Tom Hamelrijckx 12/05/2009 - categorie : music

The first couple of reviews have been poppin' up on webzines and in magazines...here we go...

From www.outofstep.tk

PN – From what rivers have to offer
CD 2009 Funtime Records
This 7th PN release became something special. Not only do they have a regular edition but ‘from what rivers have to offer is also released as a limited wooden box edition and it looks awesome. This special edition and the ‘less is more type of artwork fits PN’s music nicely.
Still rooted in hardcore, punk rock and metal PN follows it’s own path. For ‘from what rivers have to offer’ they even added a more Indy rock, poppy sound to their already broad inspired groovy atmospheric sound. This is illustrated the best with the title track in the middle of the album; it has Annelies Tanghe on vocals. The song is the best example of how silence can express a strong feeling. PN really surprised me with this release and to be honest I really like it. The two-year break at the end of 2006 paid off. 8.5/10

From www.concreteweb.be

Band: PN
Album title: From What Rivers Have To Offer
Label: Funtime Records
Distributor: Suburban
Release date: 30/04/2009
Release: CD

Now what more can be said about PN without falling into superlatives and national chauvenistism? I mean, in their genre they are quite unique in Belgium. They started back in Autumn 1992, the original bandname being Portie Nootjes and playing a somewhat "simpler" mixture of punk Rock and Hardcore, primarily influenced by the likes of Bad Religion (and other more "complex" Hardcore acts). However, from the start it was clear that this band would not be limited to any musical constraints, the individual musicians wanting to incorporate additional influences as their progress as musicians would allow it!

As it so happens, I've followed this band from its humble beginnings, and after a couple of demos followed December 1996's Romance, which already showed an extra hint of Metal influences which impressed enough people to allow PN to play a shitload of shows all over Bellgium. The ensuing Daybreak Serenity (released late 1998)showed a shift in the band's influences towards a mixture of Newschool Hardcore and passionate, emotionally driven vocals. In January 1999 the band records 3 tracks for a split with Reply, Circle, and Exit Nineteen, the songs showing a further shift of influences, the vocals becoming even more emotional and driven (say Screamo for good measure). During 2000 the band records for the first time with Dirk Miers at his Dé Studio, and although the resulting album was still loàded with melody, Our Pitiful Paradise became the most heavy outing PN made up to that moment! One year later PN is again in the studio, this time to combine half a dozen new songs with live videos recorded at the 2000 Pukkelpop gig to make the Dreamwave Heroes mini-CD. Working up to the next recording, PN slow down their concert agenda booking, thus freeing time to work more elaborately on new material.and late 2002's 6-tracker The Art Of Being We clearly shows the effort put into the album, with traces of the progressive influences from such artists as Neurosis.or rather early Isis (it even impresses enough to entice US label Life Sentence into licencing the mini-album, PN recording some extra songs and adding the Dreamwave Heroes EP to make this US release a bit more interesting). In early 2004 PN feels like experimenting a bit, and invites piano player Tom Bessemans to the rehearsal studio. Re-arranging some old songs and writing a couple of new semi-acoustic tracks, the band plays this set during a special 5-gig tour, recording the last session at Hasselt's Muziek-O-Droom venue to become the track-list for the September 2005 released live album Live At The MOD. 2006 sees the band venture in an even wider array of calm-versus-aggressive music, adding more and more Progressive and atmospheric elements into that year's album Through Satin Veil Gropes Desire. Personally, I liked what I heard só much that, having already bought the CD, I also hunted down a copy of the vinyl version of the album!

The new album is very much a continuation of the band's drift to experimentation (during 2007 and 2008, they've put together quite a few ideas, dismissed just as many, and were left with something that is unparalleled in their career), although I'm sure many people already familiar with the band's previous releases might lift an eyebrow or two at a first listening session! Let's go over the album track-by-track, shall we? "Let The Muse Respond" opens the album with an atmopheric intro (including also djembe play) before growing into a Progressive mid-paced Post-Hardore tainted passage with lead singer Johan Quinten's clean vocals contrasting against his brother (also the guitarist of the band) Bert's shouted growls (he also puts in a couple of clean backings though).and ending with something which is actually rather close to Stoner Rock/ Metal! The ensuing "Stone Roses, Dead Gardens" sees that Stoner-style return, evidently with a very pominent bass, and again with contrasting vocals. These two heavier tracks past, it's time for a calmer interlude, starting with the beautiful "Pull Out Of This Story" (during which Bert's backing vocals are clean only). The ensuing album title track is the one that might have you being amazed at first listen, as it's an acoustic track in which the music is provided by Bert playing piano, and one Beatrijs De Klerck doing the same with her violin. Vocals on this track are done entirely by one Annelies Tanghe, a young Leuven based artist with the sexiest raspy/ hoarse voice you've ever heard (formerly of Rock act JinXS, she also contributed backing vocals to the song "De Laatste Keer on the 2008 Nagelbijter album of DutchPop singer Sam Janssens - currently going under the nickname of Iza, she should have her debut solo effort out soon.and you can be sure I'll be one of the many people wanting to check that out. Now if that stirred your interest, check out myspace.com/tangheannelies), even if the somewhat sedate song is also the most melancholic one on the album! "Unleash The Lions" continues in the calmer vein, although with somewhat more distorted guitar (not quite atmospheric, but not quite heavy either), and the nicest "ooh-ooh" backings you've ever heard this band do! A return to the atmospherically calm/heavy repetitive/ Progressive comes with the ensuing "How Can I Be You", which has a focal role for the more aggressive vocals, even if Johan still brings in a couple of clean passages as well! Actually, there's even a passage where the two blend together with a third, weirdly monotonous/ melancholic, one. The heavy atmospheric mood continues with Favours And Favourites", for which part of Johan's clean vocals were put through a vocoder; second vocals are courtesy of a raging Bert again! This track being 6:43 long (longest on the album) then allows for a calmer (2-minute) interlude (during which the vocoder is switched off), but again grows towards an explosion of emotions towards the end of the song! Album closing track ("What," you'll say, "that soon?".well, the album only lasts just under 34 minutes, would you believe?) "Mise En Abime" is an atmospheric instrumental, in which the starring role is first laid upon bassist Jimmy Van Rietvelde (drummer Jurgen Vermaelen showing considerable and admirable restraint throughout the track), the guitarist playing at that moment rather etherically. When the latter comes to the fore halfway the track (which is only 128 seconds in length anyway) the bass still remains poundingly present, albeit in atmospheric terms!

For a preview of the new material, you can surf to myspace.com/pn666, where the band not only posted a 3-minutes album teaser, but also the full "How Can I Be You", and a pre-production version of the track "Stone Roses, Dead Gardens" (funny how that song grew.or rather, was cut down to the essensials.with time). Not much no go on? Well, if PN is new to you, there's also 3 additional tracks off previous albums! I've always had a special place for this band in my heart, even at the very beginning, but I have to admit it's the band's musical prowess which won me over to including their material in my year-lists! By the way, the copy Johan handed me over came in a somewhat weird package, with the album wrapped in a poster-size packing paper, laid in a cigar box with the essential artwork printed on. Nice, very nice.but I suppose it's a limited edition of the album! Can't wait to go get myself a vinyl copy of the album as well!

98/100

Tony.

From www.digg.be

PN: From What Rivers Have To Offer
ALBUM OF THE WEEK!!!
Funtime Records, 2009

Voor Digg*ers van: de gebroeders Quinten, metal en hardcore

Het gaat al geruime tijd goed met de Vlaamse muziekscène. En nee, we hebben het nu niet over Milk Inc. en konsoorten, maar over échte muziek. Vorig jaar kregen we al prachtige platen van ondermeer Amen Ra, Maudlin en The Black Heart Rebellion voorgeschoteld, dit jaar is het de beurt aan het Brabantse PN. De band rond de broers Johan 'Jokke' (zang) en Bert Quinten (gitaar), beiden ook actief in de punkrockformatie Homer, timmert al bijna vijftien jaar lang aan de weg en heeft op die tijd een serieuze back catalogue opgebouwd. Hoewel ze bij het grote publiek nooit écht zijn doorgebroken, kunnen ze op een trouwe fanbasis rekenen. En terecht, want de meningen over 'Through Satin Veils Gropes Desire', de laatste studioplaat van de band, waren unaniem lovend. Daardoor kwam de lat voor diens opvolger des te hoger te liggen.

Gelukkig beschikt PN, in tegenstelling tot heel wat andere (lees: bekendere) groepen, over genoeg knowhow en klasse om bij elke plaat vooruitgang te boeken. Dat bewijzen ze dan ook met hun nieuwste album, 'From What Rivers Have To Offer'. Volgens hun MySpace-pagina speelt PN een mix van hardcore en metal. En inderdaad, 'From What Rivers Have To Offer' biedt voor elk wat wils. 'Let The Muse Respond' en 'Stone Roses, Dead Gardens' zullen zowel door stoner-als metalfans gesmaakt worden, terwijl PN in 'How Can I Be You?' (onze favoriet) en 'Favours and Favourites' de postcore-toer opgaat. 'Pull Out Of This Story' en (vooral) titeltrack 'From What Rivers Have To Offer' leggen dan weer de meer ingetogen kant van de band bloot. Voor laatstgenoemde song deed PN een beroep op de Leuvense Annelies Tanghe, als soloartieste ook wel bekend als IZA. Toen we dit nummer voor het eerst hoorden, dachten we zowaar even dat PN Lou Rhodes van Lamb had weten te strikken. Wát een stem!!!

Maar ook de vocals van Johan Quinten doen daar niet voor onder: zijn cleane zangstem doet ons zelfs terugdenken aan de tijd dat John Garcia met wijlen Kyuss menig podia onveilig maakte. Tevens beschikt hij over een oerkreet die zonder de minste moeite een beer uit zijn winterslaap zou kunnen wekken. De andere muzikanten weten trouwens ook goed waar ze mee bezig zijn. Sla er daarvoor de lekker lang uitgesponnen instrumentale outro (inclusief een vette dubbele baspartij) van 'Favours and Favourites' maar eens op na. Jammer genoeg duren lange liedjes nooit lang, want na dik dertig minuten en acht songs zit 'From What Rivers Have To Offer' er al op.

'From What Rivers Have To Offer' van PN verveelt geen nanoseconde. Meer nog: in onze ogen (en oren) kan de band zich zonder blikken of blozen met meer internationale acts meten. Op de korte duur van de plaat na, hebben we dan ook hoegenaamd niks aan te merken op 'From What Rivers Have To Offer'. Dat PN ook oog voor detail heeft, bewijst de verpakking en het artwork van 'From What Rivers Have To Offer'. Elk album steekt namelijk in een houten sigarendoosje, waardoor de plaat al snel een heus hebbeding pleegt te worden. Klasse!!!

P.S.: Fans van de broertjes Quinten en van punkrock met een lichtmetalen randje worden trouwens op hun wenken bediend: binnen een maand verschijnt 'Wasteland Reflections', de nieuwe Homer. Way to go, Jokke!

www.funtimerecords.com/pn
www.myspace.com/pn666
Door Tom Hamelrijckx 12/05/2009 - categorie : music

Hallo,

Ons nieuwe album 'From What rivers have to offer' is ALBUM VAN DE WEEK op www.digg.be !!!
Check de review op http://www.digg.be/articles.php?id=2702
Er zijn ook wat shows toegevoegd en 'more to come', dus hou die concertlijst in de gaten ;-)
Groetjes,

P N
WWW.FUNTIMERECORDS.COM/PN

Hello There,

Some of you might have wondered why there aren't any new shirts/merch coming with the new album.  Well, the answer is plain and simple, cause we didn't make any...
Wanna know why?
Cause we don't think it's that important.
In these days a lot of bands have a shitload of merch available and when you go to a concert, it seems that a lot of people are more interested in the shirts and hoodies, instead of being focused on the band's music releases.
Which brings us to the strange conclusion that the music scene kinda became a sort of  'clothes' business.  It's totally understandable where this comes from...if you're a band that needs to live of your music and cd sales are going down, because of downloading and stuff, you need to get your money somewhere.
But it's sad somehow that shirts are in a way becoming the 'core business' of a band's merch stall.
That's why we don't think it's important for us as a band to have shirts.
If you want to support us or like our music, just buy one or more of our releases.
We put a lot of effort in the lay out of our releases to try to bring you something worth cherishing.
And if you feel like spreadin' our name by wearing a shirt, just make one yourself...it's cheaper than buying one and it pushes you to be creative, which is an absolute cool thing!
That's it for now...see you!

P N
ps : take note, of course we don't have anything against bands selling shirts or whatever they want to sell and maybe one day we'll make shirts again (if we feel we really want it:-)), but this is just the way we feel about it at this very point.

Bedankt aan iedereen die er gisterenavond een superleuke avond van maakte!
Veel volk, leuke sfeer en fijne bands!
Meer moest/moet dat niet zijn...
Tot op 1 van de volgende shows en groetjes!


P N
'From What Rivers Have To Offer' out now!!!

THE NEW PN ALBUM will be AVAILABLE IN 3 DIFFERENT FORMATS :

WOODEN BOX edition (Cd comes in gatefold mini poster print, in a small wooden box with burned labelprint, limited to 500 copies)
REGULAR edition CD in gatefold mini poster print in plastic sleeve with label sticker
WOODEN USB STICK with PN logo print + album in MP3 + wav format + artwork as PDF , limited to 16 copies

All 3 formats will be for sale at the cd release.

We hope to see you there!!!

P N
WWW.FUNTIMERECORDS.COM/PN

Hello,

Here's some latest info about the PN release party this saturday the 25th of april at the Sojo Club in Kessel-Lo (Leuven)
Sadly enough SLUDGE PHENOMENON had to cancel their show, because Lex, one of the guitarists, got injured.
Our friends of BOURBON FOR ROSES will replace them.
As you all know, they split up recently and never had a chance to play their FINAL SHOW.   Well, here's their final salute.
Major thanx to them for filling the void Sludge left with their cancellation.
And of course, we hope to see you this saturday!!!

P N
WWW.FUNTIMERECORDS.COM/PN
'From What Rivers Have To Offer' out soon!!!