Pigeons have a new album coming out, and you have the Mike Tyson documentary Tyson in your DVD player right now

Pigeons have a new album coming out, and you have the Mike Tyson documentary Tyson in your DVD player right now

Mike Tyson loves pigeons, the animal. Pigeons, the band, are a hazy psych band from the Bronx. Mike Tyson, I believe, lives somewhere in New York (though don’t quote me on that). Do I smell a love connection? No. I smell only feathers, birdseed, and the apathy of Mike Tyson toward the group that shares his beloved animal’s name.

But Pigeons are unflappable (hurr hurr) — not even a famous boxer withholding his love could stop them. As it turns out, the group is releasing a new record titled They Sweetheartstammers on November 8 through Soft Abuse. The group’s press release offers a wide range of comparisons, albeit all to relatively hazy acts like Galaxie 500, Broadcast, and Meddle-era Pink Floyd. This new full-length follows not one, but two 2010 records: Liasons (TMT Review) and Si Faustine. More records than there are birds in New York! (By the way, I speak from a future time when all but a pair of birds have been killed by a mysterious disease.)

While I’m unsure of the migration patterns of the bird pigeons, the band Pigeons plan on migrating throughout the US this winter. Ah-ha! Ah-ha-ha! Ahhhhh-haaa-haaaaaa! Ah! The joke’s on you: you just read that sentence! Ahem, anyway. Pigeons do plan on doing a US tour this winter, along with a European and UK tour in October. No specific dates have been announced as of yet, aside from the group’s appearance at Newcastle’s Tusk Festival, which also features the likes of Bill Orcutt and Grouper.

Check out the track “Dead Echo” at the Chocolate Grinder.

They Sweetheartstammers tracklist:

01. Behind the Reeds
02. Tout Nulle Part
03. Dead Echo
04. Chances
05. Red Friend
06. Tournoi
07. Lauren
08. The Welcome
09. Coquille

• Pigeons: http://pigeonsband.com
• Soft Abuse: http://www.softabuse.com

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