Premiere: Pigeon Breeders - “Breathing”
Edmonton has a rich experimental music scene and Pigeon Breeders are a big part of its recent history. The band has been performing as a trio since 2011 and they’ve been a catalyst for a rich community that allows wild and free musical expression and experimentation. This Friday (September 4th), they will be releasing Springtime As Violence, their eighth studio album and the first ever as a duo. The album features the band's toolkit of guitars, vocals, electronics, contact mic'd objects, and other instrumentation, to present sonic scenery that will connect to listeners of noise rock, krautrock, ambient, post-rock, and other textural genres, while resisting neat categorization.
After founding member Tyler Harland left the band in 2016, the duo of Will Scott and Myles Bartel would continue to perform as a three piece by working with collaborators that included Scott Smallwood, Smokey, and Ghost Cars. But by committing to a duo format for the new album, Scott and Bartel had to evolve their creative approach to continue capturing the elegant sound tapestries we’ve come to expect. They abandoned their typical approach to album production, which centered around performing open improvisations and then compiling the most favoured moments. Instead the duo worked to recreate an existing sound palette, growing each piece of the album layer by layer. The result is a brilliant effort that sounds more thought-out than an improvisational record and will no doubt be closer to what you may hear when attending a Pigeon Breeders show.
Today, Cups N Cakes is very excited to share the track “Breathing” from Springtime As Violence. Check it out below and head over to the Honey Farm Records Bandcamp Page to pre-order the beautiful LP. Bandcamp is the only place you’ll hear this incredible release and if you choose to purchase a physical copy, the first 100 LPs include a bonus CD, Partial FEED Sessions, featuring exclusive content available nowhere else (not even Bandcamp).
Finally, for those residing in Edmonton, Alberta. The Springtime As Violence release show will be taking place this Friday at Kinshi Rinji (in the building formerly known as Maki Maki) in their basement venue.
