Wait For Me - Pigeon Detectives

Another week, another terrible Indie band. That's what was going through my head when my friend told me I "have to hear the Pigeon Detectives". While ordinarily I'm against judging things by their peers, I think you can understand my scepticism surrounding the Leeds 5-piece, given that they were championed by the same people who drooled over utter tripe like The Arctic Monkeys, The Twang and The Enemy. They likewise had a silly name and do play unashamedly straightforward garage rock, all jangly, angular guitars and accented vocals. Yet after listening to Wait For Me it becomes clear the band have one thing their peers lack greatly - an ability to pen an ...

This is a truly wonderful album. It contains a great array of songs, all of which are incredibly catchy and great for lifting spirits. It comes under the indie-rock heading, yet I find that really it’s a little bit lighter than this, more pop punk and this is a refreshing change from the slightly suffocating wave of heavier music out there. Most songs are upbeat and in major keys, giving the album a happy vibe with accompanied unavoidable foot tapping, equalling a great summer sound. It can be guessed from the seemingly random name that the pigeon detectives sound is not completely average and it does have a pretty quirky nature which ...

I am always getting criticised by my friends for liking a lot of American bands but I do like my British bands too. I do feel a lot of British music has come along as there was a time when we didn’t really have a lot of bands that were good whereas now we have the likes of Razorlight, Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks, Kasabian, The Arctic Monkeys and so on really. In other words we have a lot of good bands on our own soil at festivals which is making the line-ups for a lot of the festivals good at the minute. A band that I have really started to listen to a lot lately is The Pigeon Detectives, some of you might know them through radio play or music magazines but they ...