[Cover photo credit to Brent Broza]

The Back Pacific has released the official music video for the single “I Think I’m Paranoid” off the band’s recently released 11-track album, Here Comes Our Wave.

Jim Lindberg, who is also the lead singer and songwriter of the California Skate Punk band Pennywise, says:

We are very happy to share the music video for the opening track “I Think I’m Paranoid,” off our new album Here Comes Our Wave. A huge thank you to JP Cordero and Felony Ron McIntyre and crew for helping direct, film and edit the video – and to all my friends and family who appeared in the video, especially my mom.

Here Comes Our Wave is out now on Toronto-based label Dine Alone Records. It was recorded, mixed, and mastered by at Buzzbomb Studios in Orange, CA, across two sessions in Spring and Fall of 2023. 

The Black Pacific, which previously released a self-titled debut on SideOneDummy Records in 2010, showcases songs solely written and performed by Lindberg, featuring his longtime collaborator and drummer Alan Vega.

Lindberg says:

I’ve been writing songs for Pennywise and various side projects for many years, and I’ve amassed a catalog of hundreds of demos, literally boxes of cassette tapes and CD’s and hard drives from the last few decades. Some of the songs weren’t right for Pennywise, and all of these songs I worked on with Alan from The Black Pacific so it just made sense to put out under that name. When I pick up an electric guitar this is the music that comes out of me, regardless of what name it comes out under.

About “I Think I’m Paranoid”, he adds:

I’ve had this song for a while now and it was about all the senseless violence, terrorism, government conspiracies and divisiveness that make you want to move to a desert island somewhere, but now I’ve updated it to include hate groups, militias and global pandemics, so it’s basically just a panic attack with distorted guitars at 120 Beats Per Minute.