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Recommended by us on 9th July 2010
...according to our Brett on Thu 08 Jul, 2010.
Wow, I've got another husband and wife duo here.. They're all the rage this week. I was instantly keen on this one when it was played the other day and I'm even keener this time around. It's a little bit of a departure for Olde English Spelling Bee, surely our favourite peddlers of hypnagogia and outsider oddness, being one of the most traditionally structured and certainly the folkiest thing I've heard on the label so far. Don't get me wrong like, there's plenty of weirdness to go around and the overall effect tends towards the heavily psychedelic but many of the songs here are built upon catchy, poppy vocal melodies - gorgeously enunciated by a voice which often reminds me of Broadcast's Trish Keenan in its tone and delivery. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if there was a fair degree of similarity between Pigeons' influences and those of Broadcast - acid folk, classic psychedelia, Silver Apples, traditional song forms etc. etc. This LP's a completely lovely way to spend forty-odd of your minutes so be sure to give it a little look.
Pigeons is the psychedelic pop project of married couple Wednesday Knudsen and Clark Griffin. They met in Seattle and while living there were part of The Sea Donkeys - a shambling anti-folk collective of freaks which also featured Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies label. The Sea Donkeys released an lp on the Sun City Girl's Abduction label in 2005. Pigeons formed later that same year when Wednesday and Clark relocated to New York. After releasing a string of micro-run cassettes and lathe-cut vinyls that explored noise and free jazz modes they turned their energies towards writing structured songs. The first widely available release of their song-oriented material was the "Virgin Spectacle" lp that came out on Black Dirt in 2008. That was followed by a 7" single on Soft Abuse in 2009. "Si Faustine" is their second album and like "Virgin Spectacle" was recorded at Jason Meagher's Black Dirt Studio. Also featured on the album are contributions from Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, Gnaw, Zashiki-Warashi, Izititiz), Jason Meagher (NNCK, D. Charles Speer, Coach Fingers), and Rene Blume-Meagher. Pigeons are currently living in Paris, France and have shows scheduled this summer in Paris and Berlin. Upcoming releases include a 7" on OESB and a 12" e.p. on Soft Abuse. Housed in full-color "tip-on" style jackets featuring artwork by Melodie Provenzano and also includes an mp3 download coupon.
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