The Pennys

There’s an idea that every indie band is a mediation of some variant of the Velvet Underground (I just made up that idea @me if you want). The Pennys take the VU variant of deadbeat crepuscular ballads, all gentle mystique, noirish glamour and intense romanticism.

This is hushed intimacy and gentle devastation. One of 2025’s great records. Like Tony Molina’s pocket symphonies finding Opal’s back catalogue. If I were 16 I’d be stalking them. Or writing their name on my school desk after being turned away from the tattoo parlour.