My top 5 favourite Pinegrove songs

April 21, 2025

5. Need 2 - Everything So Far

Need 2 is potentially Pinegrove's most widely-known song, thanks to TikTok. The song builds slowly but steadily throughout, with drones and dissonant chords drowning you in a sound that is at the same time anxious and relaxing. This song feels like knowing you're never making it out of this godawful town. It feels like getting high and hanging out with your friends under a bridge and realizing maybe this town isn't so bad after all. The vocal harmonies are equally unsettling yet satisfying, scratching an itch in the brain only scratched by Pinegrove.

7/10

Favourite lyric "It's nothing worth me sayin' aloud. So then, why do I seem to, need to?"

4. Old Friends - Cardinal

This is the first Pinegrove song I came across. The song talks about getting over someone, knowing that you both made mistakes and that you need to move on, but not being able to. It's about losing and gaining relationships. It's about going back to your home town and missing out on hanging out with your friends because you're too busy feeling sorry for yourself. It's downright pleasant to listen to whether you want to sit back and relax or hop in the pit. An absolute classic.

7/10

Favourite lyric: "I saw your boyfriend at the port authority, that's a sort of fucked up place."

Favourite lyric: "I should call my parents when I think of them, should tell my friends when I love them."

3. On Jet Lag (Amperland, NY) - Amperland, NY

This is probably my most unique pick. The song begins with an absolutely trucking bass, guitar, and drum groove.

Honourable mention to the Everything So Far version, which is much whinier and emo-y, even containing the original lyric "let me be clear this woman's crazy". Although I do not condone calling women crazy, the midwest emo of it all hits every time. I love it and I'm not sorry. Continuing one of Pinegrove's favourite themes of leaving and returning to "people, place[s], and thing[s]", this version of On Jet Lag is a live performance, but it comes across clear and sounds great.

9/10

Favourite lyric: "I met your mother and your father and I liked them, they bicker the way we bicker."

2. New Friends - Cardinal

A song about making new friends because you fucked up and lost all your old ones. A song of rebirth, how appropriate for the Easter season. The lyrics are nervous yet optimistic, with Evan Stephens Hall trying to convince himself as much as anyone else that now is the time to start again. After all, what's the worst that could happen?

Truthfully, my favourite part of this song is the harmonies. Right at the part where it goes "I saaaaaay, forget it". The groove around this part of the song is also nuts. The banjo absolutely wailing in the background. Goosebumps. 

10/10

Favourite lyric: "What's the worst that could happen? The end of summer and I'm still in love with her."

1. Angelina - Skylight

What else could it be? 1 minute and 38 seconds of pure joy. The harmonies, the instrumentation, the build up. This wonderful song has all the elements that make Pinegrove so great. Thank you Pinegrove for making so many incredible songs.

10/10

Favourite lyric: "I don't understand anything." 

Favourite lyric: "I love you like it's the old days, when I could tell you anything."