Pennywise’s Jim Lindberg Revives The Black Pacific for First Album in 14 Years, Unveils “I Think I’m Paranoid”: Stream

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The Black Pacific, featuring Pennywise frontman Jim Lindberg, have announced their sophomore album and first LP in 14 years, HERE COMES OUR WAVE .

Ahead of the September 20th release date — almost a 14 years to-the-day since their debut dropped in 2010 — the band offered up the original lead single and opening track “I Think I’m Paranoid” (not a cover of the Garbage song by the same name).

The track channels “post-9/11 anxieties and modern day fears,” according to the press release, and falls right in Lindberg’s melodic-punk wheelhouse. Given the sonic similarities, this is essentially an extension of Lindberg’s work in Pennywise — and considering that band hasn’t released an album since 2018, a boon for dedicated fans of the skate-punk act.

“I’ve had this song for a while now,” remarked Lindberg in a press release, “and it was about all the senseless violence, terrorism, government conspiracies, and divisiveness that make you want to move to a desert island somewhere, but now I’ve updated it to include hate groups, militias and global pandemics, so it’s basically just a panic attack with distorted guitars at 120 Beats Per Minute.”

All the songs on HERE COMES OUR WAVE , like the debut from The Black Pacific, were written and performed by Lindberg alongside his longtime friend and recording partner, drummer Alan Vega. As Lindberg explained, the music was culled from a stockpile of demos he had recorded over the years, including songs that didn’t fit within the context of Pennywise.

“I’ve been writing songs for Pennywise and various projects for many years, and I’ve amassed a catalog of hundreds of demos, literally boxes of cassette tapes from the last few decades,” Lindberg said. “Some of the songs weren’t right for Pennywise, and I worked on them with Alan from The Black Pacific so it just made sense to put out under that name.”

He continued: “I think the knee jerk reaction will be to say it all sounds like Pennywise, but I wrote the music and lyrics for more than half of every Pennywise album we made together after Jason [Thirsk] our bass player passed away, so I think it’s more accurate to say that Pennywise sounds like me, not the other way around! When I pick up an electric guitar this is the music that comes out of me, regardless of what name it comes out under.”

You can pre-order HERE COMES OUR WAVE via Dine Alone Records . Stream “I Think I’m Paranoid” below and see the album art and tracklist.

HERE COMES OUR WAVE Artwork:

HERE COMES OUR WAVE Tracklist:
01. I Think I’m Paranoid
02. Superhero
03. No Fun
04. Won’t Make a Sound
05. Here We Come
06. Best Day Ever
07. When Paper Burns
08. Float Away
09. It’s Gone
10. Won’t Let You Down
11. Here Comes Our Wave

Pennywise’s Jim Lindberg Revives The Black Pacific for First Album in 14 Years, Unveils “I Think I’m Paranoid”: Stream
Jon Hadusek