pyncher Return with Second EP ‘I Really Mean It This Time’

Manchester four-piece pyncher have put a date on their second EP. “I Really Mean It This Time” lands on 19 June through Heist or Hit, the label that’s been a quiet anchor for a loose but increasingly visible wave of guitar bands around the city. The announcement arrives alongside “Oh Boy,” a lead single that digs into the kind of feelings that resist easy articulation. “This song is about feelings I can’t really explain,” says vocalist Sam Blakeley. “I feel disconnected from people a lot, and it’s about the cyclical patterns that can come from being unable to communicate properly.”

The track was recorded at The Nave in Leeds with producer Alex Greaves. It thickens the scuzz that ran through the band’s debut “Every Town Needs a Stranger,” which dropped last October. That record introduced pyncher as more than just another name in a Manchester scene that’s been bubbling with acts like Westside Cowboy and TTSSFU. BBC 6 Music took notice early, spinning the band on air and booking them for the station’s Manchester festival earlier this year.

Now the mission feels more focused. The EP title reads like a promise to the music itself, a step past the first record’s tentative offerings. pyncher are already building out the calendar to match: a release-day show at London’s Shacklewell Arms, followed by a UK and European run supporting The Sophs. Come October, they’ll play Rotterdam’s Left of the Dial, a festival that’s made its name by spotting bands just as they tip from local murmurs into something wider.