The Pack a.d. - Devious (Official Audio)

With a career spanning two decades, eight full-length albums, and thousands of shows across North America, South America, and Europe, The Pack a.d.–singer/guitarist Becky Black and drummer Maya Miller–have crafted a sound so fierce, raw, and empowering that it’s easy to forget there are just two people behind this brilliant, carefully constructed havoc.

Formed in 2007, the band got their first break with Mint Records, sealing a three-album deal over a bottle of Jack Daniels. Now, eighteen years later, the band and the label are teaming up once again to release Shiny New Old Songs.

The album was originally intended as a 7” EP of unreleased B-sides from The Pack’s 2011 album Unpersons–the breakthrough record that cemented The Pack a.d.’s unique sound that blends blues, punk and garage rock. But as the band dug through their archives, they discovered more previously unreleased tracks that they wanted to share.

They enlisted their longtime mastering engineer Stu McKillop of Raincity Recorders to give these shiny new old songs their final polish, transforming the EP into an eight song digital album.

This is how collaborations between The Pack a.d. and Mint have always worked–with one part inspiration, one part excitement, and all the other parts, heart. The band and the label have loved looking back at the songs on Shiny New Old and reflecting on the collaborative spirit and partnership between them, which might best be summarized by a line from The Pack song, “Give Up”: You may feel leftover, but you’ll always make my team.


Produced by The Pack a.d.

All songs recorded on 14–track tape in Vancouver, BC 2011-2015
Engineered by Jesse Gander

Mastered by Stu McKillop at Raincity Recorders, Vancouver, BC
All songs written and performed by The Pack A.D. (SOCAN)

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This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada, and Canada’s private radio broadcasters.

Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada, et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.