…Originally self-released in 2023 as an ultra-limited cassette run of about 50 copies, the album received a wider official reissue on vinyl, CD, and digital formats on September 4, 2026 via Perennial and K Records.
Sharp Pins‘ Mod Mayday 23 is a cute concept; the band’s Kai Slater picks his favorite tracks from the Mods Mayday ’79 collection, which was recorded in at a live 1979 concert featuring the cream of the U.K mod revival crop. Bands like Squire, Secret Affair, the Merton Parkas, and Small Hours were all formed in the wake of the Jam’s ascendance and followed a similar path of pairing the hopped-up R&B sounds of the original mod scene with the feisty aggression of punk. Slater captures the intensity and hookiness of…

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