Pigeons

Pigeons are an experimental indie pop group hailing through the Bronx, NY. Their music can be a hazy make of lo-fi psych-folk influenced by French pop music, frequently incorporating flutes, drum devices, and guitar responses, even though the group’s later on recordings have shown tighter musicianship and songwriting. The group’s lineup offers shifted over time, and offers included people of well-known experimental organizations No-Neck Blues Music group and Pelt, however the primary of the group is definitely guitarist/vocalist Wed Knudsen and multi-instrumentalist Clark Griffin, both of whom possess participated in experimental collective the ocean Donkeys. Pigeons debuted in the middle-2000s with some limited tapes and lathe-cut vinyl fabric produces on Clark Griffin’s Moran Tape Label. The group’s debut LP, Virgin Spectacle, premiered in 2008 by engineer Jason Meagher’s Dark Dirt Information, and presented Carter Thornton of Enos Slaughter like a bandmember. The group after that authorized to Minneapolis-based label Soft Misuse and released 7″ EP Lunettes in ’09 2009. The entire year 2010 started with the launch of LP Si Faustine on Olde British Spelling Bee, and a tape released by blog page Chocolates Bobka (within their Curatorial Golf club series). Thornton remaining the band, as well as the group released two 7″s (Visions from the Valley on Soft Misuse and Hearts on Olde British Spelling Bee) and a full-length (Liasons on Soft Misuse) like a duo, all during 2010. The group extended its lineup in 2011, including Meagher like a bandmember aswell as drummer Ben Bogan (additionally, Nathan Bowles of Dark Twig Pickers, Spiral Pleasure Music group, and Pelt became a member of the group during live shows). Japanese label Sixteen Tambourines released Pigeons’ limited cassette No Shore in July of 2011. Full-length LP They Sweetheartstammers came on Soft Mistreatment toward the finish of the entire year, and highlighted a heavier, even more psychedelic audio than their prior recordings. Third , record, the group’s tempo section became a member of Steve Gunn’s support music group, and Knudsen and Griffin transferred in the Bronx to upstate NY. Knudsen participated in the full-length debut by Dark Dirt Oak, an experimental folk supergroup features Bowles and Gunn aswell as members from the Suntanama, No-Neck Blues Music group, and several various other groupings. Rob Smith of Rhyton became Pigeons’ brand-new drummer, as well as the trio documented their 5th LP, The Bower, in 2014, blended by Meagher at his Dark Dirt Studio room. MIE Music released the LP in springtime of 2015, implemented later in the summertime by “Buoy,” a 7″ one on Soft Mistreatment.