Pigeons' 2nd album hope

Detectives say they are better musicians

27 May 08 - The Pigeon Detectives are hoping their second album will propel them into the mainstream.

Emergency, which was produced by Stephen Street, is out this week and this comes just a year after their debut record - Wait For Me.

The Leeds band told 6 Music that they have definitely grown up over the last 12 months: “We’ve probably played 200 gigs since we wrote the last album so in that 200 gigs time, you’ve become better musicians.

“And you have a different outlook on what a good song is or what a good tune is - so that all shows in the record hopefully.”

"There’s another 6 songs that are just kind of proving to people we’re not a one trick pony"
The Pigeon Detectives

The record has been released on Leeds indie label Dance to the Radio, which also kick started the careers of Forward Russia and iliketrains.

They went on to say that while some of the album was like the songs they had done before, some of it definitely represented a progression in their sound.

They said: “I would say it’s fifty fifty. Y’know there’s probably 6 or 7 songs on there that could easily have gone on Wait For Me and not been out of place.

“But there’s another 6 songs that are just kind of proving to people we’re not a one trick pony but y’know, without deliberately sounding kind of different or quirky – it’s an organic change.”

The Pigeon Detectives play at the Bristol Academy on Wednesday 28 May and come to London's Brixton Academy on 6 and 7 June.


Kelly Stooke