AMG Review of Pinheads on the Move

Dean Carlson
All Music Guide

An enjoyable but disturbed trawl through the band's unusual rarities, demos, and live and deleted tracks recorded in the six years leading up to Blaine L. Reininger's 1983 departure, Pinheads on the Move was Tuxedomoon on top of its own peculiar game. With a crude, raw sound and even less of a taste for pop construction came a brutal, difficult, rewarding riff on the band's new wave meta-punk. Rock theatrics merged with Third World-influenced basslines and cubist classical music, as in the band's debut single, the album's title track -- Captain Beefheart by way of Einstürzende Neubauten, Shostakovich, Can, Kraftwerk, and Stormtroopers of Death.