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BAND/ARTIST: The Pigeons
- Title: Bird Brain Gang
- Year Of Release: 2023
- Label: Freaksville Music
- Genre: art rock, electronic, post-punk, alternative, psychedelic rock
- Quality: 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 33 min
- Total Size: 242 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
The London-based power trio present Bird Brain Gang, a debut album that’ll make you coo. It’s an airborne riot of block covering beats, bird feed-back, beak poetry and squelchy, white sonic discharge. These creatures of dubious habit offer a psychedelic bird’s eye view of the world, with eleven new tracks that will undoubtedly leave their mark.
“We got together a few years back for the occasional show to play very loud, improvised, confrontational rock wearing pigeon masks,” explains Phil
Pigeon, who never expected to be writing songs for a band called The Pigeons. “We saw it as a side-project to our other professional pursuits, a random reason to meet up, get loaded and raise sonic hell.” In a previous
incarnation, Phil MFU was responsible for “strange sounds” in the lauded
pop quintet Vanishing Twin.
Sonically, The Pigeons are a more confrontational unit, driven by Tommy Pigeon’s scattergun drumming, which drives The Pigeons like Clyde Stubblefield drove James Brown and, ergo, old skool hip hop: “Tommy Pigeon's ever-changing rhythms and impactful drive informed a lot of the compositional flow of the record,” says Phil.
The album looks back to an idealised London before gentrification destroyed the capital’s edge, property developers turned all the great venues into expensive flats for non-domiciled oligarchs to snap up, and before the establishment attempted to drive all of the pigeons out of Trafalgar Square: “We wanted to echo the old scenes of London from the past: sixties beat and seventies punk... I arrived here in 1986, just at the very end of the punk and new wave scenes, but that vibrancy was still around and in the air. I’ve found myself pining for other Londons of the past. It was all much more rock and roll than it is now, especially since Brexit and Covid.”
Phil Pigeon fancied a flutter with the sounds from the gutter: “I’m normally known for electronic outer space music and it’s my first time singing and playing guitar.” On top of distorted stabs from the steel strings, comes the influence of seventies library music, and avant-garde godfather Karlheinz Stockhausen too (“for the figurative musical gestures and timing... I love early sci-fi electronics mixed with rock,” enthuses Phil.)
On top of the squalling electronics and shapeshifting samples, come tales of the unexpected, each as surprising as a splat in the eye. Take ‘Amanda
Feilding’, for instance, written about the LSD-endorsing Queen of Consciousness (dubbed by the New Scientist, no less), who Phil describes as “very punk”. Feilding campaigned for widespread trepanation across the nation, and claimed to have a telepathic relationship with her pigeon, Birdy.
“When researching pigeons for lyrical subject matter, stumbling across this amazing character who had a love affair with a pigeon was pure gold,” says Phil. “The song is from the pigeon’s perspective, the bass guitar playing like a tuba marching band, the beat of the pigeon's heart, the guitar, the wild ruffling of feathers...” He goes on: “As a psychedelic rock musician, the fact that Amanda has devoted her life to the study of psychedelics and now has a very successful research centre devoted to the study of it just adds another very rich level.”
Other highlights include ‘Take Aim’ and ‘Spikes’, written by Phil and Jimmy respectively. The former says: “I was surprised by how many bird-related themes we could come up with.” It all bodes well for a future torrent of emissions, naturally made to ordure: “I've been studying about a pigeon in World War Two who won a medal of honour for flying several missions across the channel to deliver messages. His code name was N.U.R.P.38.EGU.242. Sounds like a possible future punk prog track.” Watch this space, and get ready for The Pigeons. The excellent, effluent Bird Brain Gang is about to drop. You’re guano love it!
Tracklist:
1.01 - The Pigeons - Sideways Stare (2:17)
1.02 - The Pigeons - Bird Brain Gang (2:28)
1.03 - The Pigeons - Amanda Fielding (2:02)
1.04 - The Pigeons - Pigeon Rock (1:50)
1.05 - The Pigeons - The Pigeon 1000 Super Music Computer (3:59)
1.06 - The Pigeons - Pecking At The Pavement (2:34)
1.07 - The Pigeons - Iron Bird (1:10)
1.08 - The Pigeons - Take Aim (3:52)
1.09 - The Pigeons - Spikes (3:56)
1.10 - The Pigeons - Angry Little Circles (3:25)
1.11 - The Pigeons - Master Disaster (5:14)
“We got together a few years back for the occasional show to play very loud, improvised, confrontational rock wearing pigeon masks,” explains Phil
Pigeon, who never expected to be writing songs for a band called The Pigeons. “We saw it as a side-project to our other professional pursuits, a random reason to meet up, get loaded and raise sonic hell.” In a previous
incarnation, Phil MFU was responsible for “strange sounds” in the lauded
pop quintet Vanishing Twin.
Sonically, The Pigeons are a more confrontational unit, driven by Tommy Pigeon’s scattergun drumming, which drives The Pigeons like Clyde Stubblefield drove James Brown and, ergo, old skool hip hop: “Tommy Pigeon's ever-changing rhythms and impactful drive informed a lot of the compositional flow of the record,” says Phil.
The album looks back to an idealised London before gentrification destroyed the capital’s edge, property developers turned all the great venues into expensive flats for non-domiciled oligarchs to snap up, and before the establishment attempted to drive all of the pigeons out of Trafalgar Square: “We wanted to echo the old scenes of London from the past: sixties beat and seventies punk... I arrived here in 1986, just at the very end of the punk and new wave scenes, but that vibrancy was still around and in the air. I’ve found myself pining for other Londons of the past. It was all much more rock and roll than it is now, especially since Brexit and Covid.”
Phil Pigeon fancied a flutter with the sounds from the gutter: “I’m normally known for electronic outer space music and it’s my first time singing and playing guitar.” On top of distorted stabs from the steel strings, comes the influence of seventies library music, and avant-garde godfather Karlheinz Stockhausen too (“for the figurative musical gestures and timing... I love early sci-fi electronics mixed with rock,” enthuses Phil.)
On top of the squalling electronics and shapeshifting samples, come tales of the unexpected, each as surprising as a splat in the eye. Take ‘Amanda
Feilding’, for instance, written about the LSD-endorsing Queen of Consciousness (dubbed by the New Scientist, no less), who Phil describes as “very punk”. Feilding campaigned for widespread trepanation across the nation, and claimed to have a telepathic relationship with her pigeon, Birdy.
“When researching pigeons for lyrical subject matter, stumbling across this amazing character who had a love affair with a pigeon was pure gold,” says Phil. “The song is from the pigeon’s perspective, the bass guitar playing like a tuba marching band, the beat of the pigeon's heart, the guitar, the wild ruffling of feathers...” He goes on: “As a psychedelic rock musician, the fact that Amanda has devoted her life to the study of psychedelics and now has a very successful research centre devoted to the study of it just adds another very rich level.”
Other highlights include ‘Take Aim’ and ‘Spikes’, written by Phil and Jimmy respectively. The former says: “I was surprised by how many bird-related themes we could come up with.” It all bodes well for a future torrent of emissions, naturally made to ordure: “I've been studying about a pigeon in World War Two who won a medal of honour for flying several missions across the channel to deliver messages. His code name was N.U.R.P.38.EGU.242. Sounds like a possible future punk prog track.” Watch this space, and get ready for The Pigeons. The excellent, effluent Bird Brain Gang is about to drop. You’re guano love it!
Tracklist:
1.01 - The Pigeons - Sideways Stare (2:17)
1.02 - The Pigeons - Bird Brain Gang (2:28)
1.03 - The Pigeons - Amanda Fielding (2:02)
1.04 - The Pigeons - Pigeon Rock (1:50)
1.05 - The Pigeons - The Pigeon 1000 Super Music Computer (3:59)
1.06 - The Pigeons - Pecking At The Pavement (2:34)
1.07 - The Pigeons - Iron Bird (1:10)
1.08 - The Pigeons - Take Aim (3:52)
1.09 - The Pigeons - Spikes (3:56)
1.10 - The Pigeons - Angry Little Circles (3:25)
1.11 - The Pigeons - Master Disaster (5:14)
Year 2023 | Rock | Alternative | Punk | Electronic | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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