Balloon Balloon Balloon LP
A1 Popafangout<br/> A2 I Don't Have The Heart<br/> A3 I Could Find Out<br/> A4 Queen Of Globes And Mirrors<br/> A5 (I Wanna) Be Your Girl<br/> A6 Gonna Learn To Crawl<br/> A7 Balloon 1<br/> A8 I Don't Adore-Youo<br/> A9 All The Prefabs<br/> A10 Talking In Your Sleep<br/> B1 Fall In Love Again<br/> B2 Serene Haus Of Hair<br/> B3 (In A While) You'll Be Mine<br/> B4 Balloon 2<br/> B5 Ex-Priest/In A Hole Of A Home<br/> B6 Takes So Long<br/> B7 Stop To Say Hello<br/> B8 All The Shops And Stores Are Closing Now<br/> B9 Maria Don't<br/> B10 Crown Of Thorns<br/> B11 Balloon 3
Sharp Pins "Balloon Balloon Balloon" [KLP310/PRNL62]
Sometimes it all goes POP --
21 tracks 33RPM
"Sharp Pins tingle and jingle and spangle - acupuncture for the soul, threading a much-needed shot of 1965 into the tired hide of today. Or you could just say they’re a crack in the sky where the sun shines through. Or you could just say they’re fab!” - Robyn Hitchcock
"Youth-full popkids of the world, unite!
What other rallying cry may reverberate thru the cavernous anti-scene of today’s Music
Industry?
What other yelp for pains and pleasures may slice thru the barking televisions and
percolating algorithms?
The cold, metallic sting of artifice?
The refusal to trust in one’s heart and voice and twelve lonely strings?
Let the radio flash the answer.
For KAI SLATER (a.k.a. “SHARP PINS”) has tuned to the radio-freak-uency of the YOUTH UNDERGROUND (the sleeptalking pirateradio of dreams). With paisley sleeves dragged heavy by his heart, SHARP PINS reintroduces us to a memory buried deep in our veins. Reinventing a past that never existed. Carving POP Arty-facts into teenage bedrooms that remind us our BODIES ARE MEANT TO DANCE. Why must it all “TAKE SO LONG”?
What marks “BALLOON BALLOON BALLOON” as thee “Next Thing,” is the willingness — Nay, obligation — to show today’s teenboppers that Love is not something to hide from. Rather, there is no truer art than boldly selling one’s heart to the slaughterhaus. Let the radiowaves carry our secret messages and prayers and swollen tears. For a song is a mirror — if only we could see clearly!
If there is some higher directive for the music of SHARP PINS, it is thus:
Open yor heart
provide home and hearth for the youth-phonetics
of neu L-U-V and dreams three sizes too big
wipe away yor tears
remember to dance is to revolt
and within each chest is a voice
TODAY is the time
YOUTH REVOLUTION NOW!"
- Johnson Rockstar (a.k.a Otis Johnson)
credits
released November 21, 2025
Recorded by Kai Slater and Hayes Waring. Mixed by Kai Slater. Additional Mixing by Hayes Waring and Capt. Tripps Ballsington. Mastered by Amy Dragon.
Recorded at Home in Chicago IL and Mobile Control in Olympia Washington
January - May 2025
“Youth Revolution Now”
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A1 Popafangout
A2 I Don't Have The Heart
A3 I Could Find Out
A4 Queen Of Globes And Mirrors
A5 (I Wanna) Be Your Girl
A6 Gonna Learn To Crawl
A7 Balloon 1
A8 I Don't Adore-Youo
A9 All The Prefabs
A10 Talking In Your Sleep
B1 Fall In Love Again
B2 Serene Haus Of Hair
B3 (In A While) You'll Be Mine
B4 Balloon 2
B5 Ex-Priest/In A Hole Of A Home
B6 Takes So Long
B7 Stop To Say Hello
B8 All The Shops And Stores Are Closing Now
B9 Maria Don't
B10 Crown Of Thorns
B11 Balloon 3
Sharp Pins "Balloon Balloon Balloon" [KLP310/PRNL62]
Sometimes it all goes POP --
21 tracks 33RPM
"Sharp Pins tingle and jingle and spangle - acupuncture for the soul, threading a much-needed shot of 1965 into the tired hide of today. Or you could just say they’re a crack in the sky where the sun shines through. Or you could just say they’re fab!” - Robyn Hitchcock
"Youth-full popkids of the world, unite!
What other rallying cry may reverberate thru the cavernous anti-scene of today’s Music
Industry?
What other yelp for pains and pleasures may slice thru the barking televisions and
percolating algorithms?
The cold, metallic sting of artifice?
The refusal to trust in one’s heart and voice and twelve lonely strings?
Let the radio flash the answer.
For KAI SLATER (a.k.a. “SHARP PINS”) has tuned to the radio-freak-uency of the YOUTH UNDERGROUND (the sleeptalking pirateradio of dreams). With paisley sleeves dragged heavy by his heart, SHARP PINS reintroduces us to a memory buried deep in our veins. Reinventing a past that never existed. Carving POP Arty-facts into teenage bedrooms that remind us our BODIES ARE MEANT TO DANCE. Why must it all “TAKE SO LONG”?
What marks “BALLOON BALLOON BALLOON” as thee “Next Thing,” is the willingness — Nay, obligation — to show today’s teenboppers that Love is not something to hide from. Rather, there is no truer art than boldly selling one’s heart to the slaughterhaus. Let the radiowaves carry our secret messages and prayers and swollen tears. For a song is a mirror — if only we could see clearly!
If there is some higher directive for the music of SHARP PINS, it is thus:
Open yor heart
provide home and hearth for the youth-phonetics
of neu L-U-V and dreams three sizes too big
wipe away yor tears
remember to dance is to revolt
and within each chest is a voice
TODAY is the time
YOUTH REVOLUTION NOW!"
- Johnson Rockstar (a.k.a Otis Johnson)
credits
released November 21, 2025
Recorded by Kai Slater and Hayes Waring. Mixed by Kai Slater. Additional Mixing by Hayes Waring and Capt. Tripps Ballsington. Mastered by Amy Dragon.
Recorded at Home in Chicago IL and Mobile Control in Olympia Washington
January - May 2025
“Youth Revolution Now”


