Woodpigeon

Add Date: January 12

Artist: Woodpigeon

Album: Die Stadt Muzikanten

Label: Boompa

Genre: Pop

Comments: From the label: "Woodpigeon is more than just the most beautiful word in the English language, although that’s precisely why it was chosen by songwriter Mark Hamilton as the moniker for his pretty-pretty-pop project. ... Woodpigeon’s preferred habitat is slightly spooky places (friendly ghosts only) with natural reverb, with nearby vintage mellotrons and echoing stairwells, and perhaps a gaggle of singing children when feeling maudlin. They rock out on harpsichords and wrench tears out of guitars before playing them damp. Bells, whistles, handclaps – all the aural tchotchkes are enlisted to serve the song, wherever they can brighten a melody or limn a mournful line. Girlish voices become instruments, while Mark’s lonely choirboy vocals – somehow, impossibly, lodged in a lumberjack-ish bear of a man – sound uncannily like they’re being sung directly into your ear. You can almost feel his warm minty breath."

For fans of The Acorn, The A-Sides, and Real Estate. Check out "The Street Noise Gives You Away" or "Empty-Hall Sing-Along."

Vitriol