pinkpool – second 2 fast (2026)
Known for its distinctive brand of electronica and metal music, Berlin is a place made for the bold, brave, and maybe a little crazy music lovers. Hailing from this diverse city, a band of music students with a passion for punk-rock came together to form a brash, abrasive, but entirely decadent and intoxicating foursome, pinkpool. Blending elements of prog-metal, pop-punk and raw emo, their sound is tight, fast and edgy, hitting you between the eyes, but in a good way. A brazen upcoming group, pinkpool quickly built an online audience with their debut single, ‘wrong’. In fact, they even went on a mini-tour off the back of this release. Today, we take a listen to their most recent single, ‘second 2 fast’.
One of the tracks from their upcoming debut EP, ‘second 2 fast’ follows ‘wrong’, blasting through your speakers with a high-voltage, energetic rush of pop-punk. Made for a mosh pit, the single breaks the air with Grigory Gorozhankin’s punk-infused screams, really pulling you to attention. Adrian Daniel Bunea’s guitar scorches and soars while Mikhail Lobanov’s bass pulsates beneath. Ivan Belyi’s crashing drums roar, and all the while those intense vocals dance across in ferocity.
One aspect I love about ‘second 2 fast’ is how it shifts from chaotic fury to mellow lulls and serene soothing, then mellifluously back to the madness – almost like a rollercoaster of sound and emotion. Produced by Misha Morra with mixing and mastering by David Tegerashvili, the single uses these waves of music, including Gorozhankin’s trumpet during the smooth bits, to capture the weighty metaphor and theme of the song: drowning in toxic relationships. pinkpool explain:
“‘second 2 fast’ uses the suffocating metaphor of drowning to explore toxic dynamics and emotional burnout. It is a “poem to the world” for those who feel the water rising. When the life jacket rips your skin and the lungs fill with water, only one question remains: Who goes down first?”
Personally, I am thrilled with ‘second 2 fast’ and ‘wrong’, but I have one concern. While pinkpool impresses with these two tracks, is this their peak? I surely hope not. Here’s looking forward to more from the impassioned foursome.
Find out more about pinkpool on their official website, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp and Spotify.
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