1 hr 22 min
The Pigeon Detectives - We Met at Sea Broken Records - The Search for the Worst Album Ever
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- Music Commentary
We’re a little late this week, apologies for that, but, hey, who can blame us, we’re having to dive back into one of our least favourite scenes in musical history; the indie landfill boom of the mid-00’s. This week we look at the fourth album from Leeds based indie nothing-men The Pigeon Detectives, released on the 29th of April 2013.
You might feel that, having already discussed the likes of Razorlight, The Vines, The Enemy and The Twang there isn’t much gas left in the tank from Steve or Remfry when it comes to yet another one of these artists, but, actually, one of us is particularly wound up by the bands bland, jaunty noodlings. Having had a number three UK hit in 2007 with their debut album Wait For Me, The Pigeon Detectives seemed to make it their life mission to hang out with as many appalling and objectionable people as possible. This meant a record number of performances on Sky’s risible flagship football banter show Soccer AM, going on tour with fellow hometown tossers The Kaiser Chiefs, allowing one of their gigs to be filmed by the internet TV company of gormless everyman and Sunday Brunch presenter Tim Lovejoy and inviting lunatic former Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino up onstage with them to piss all over Jimi Hendrix’s Hey Joe. So far, so easy to hate.
Unsurprisingly the band suffered badly as the 2010’s quickly re-evaluated the artistic merits of the indie scene, and We Met At Sea was their first album not to chart, was savaged by the critics and even the band themselves struggled to formulate a coherent sentence to justify their existence. But is it really that bad, or is it just really dull?... well… it’s kinda both actually.
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We’re a little late this week, apologies for that, but, hey, who can blame us, we’re having to dive back into one of our least favourite scenes in musical history; the indie landfill boom of the mid-00’s. This week we look at the fourth album from Leeds based indie nothing-men The Pigeon Detectives, released on the 29th of April 2013.
You might feel that, having already discussed the likes of Razorlight, The Vines, The Enemy and The Twang there isn’t much gas left in the tank from Steve or Remfry when it comes to yet another one of these artists, but, actually, one of us is particularly wound up by the bands bland, jaunty noodlings. Having had a number three UK hit in 2007 with their debut album Wait For Me, The Pigeon Detectives seemed to make it their life mission to hang out with as many appalling and objectionable people as possible. This meant a record number of performances on Sky’s risible flagship football banter show Soccer AM, going on tour with fellow hometown tossers The Kaiser Chiefs, allowing one of their gigs to be filmed by the internet TV company of gormless everyman and Sunday Brunch presenter Tim Lovejoy and inviting lunatic former Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino up onstage with them to piss all over Jimi Hendrix’s Hey Joe. So far, so easy to hate.
Unsurprisingly the band suffered badly as the 2010’s quickly re-evaluated the artistic merits of the indie scene, and We Met At Sea was their first album not to chart, was savaged by the critics and even the band themselves struggled to formulate a coherent sentence to justify their existence. But is it really that bad, or is it just really dull?... well… it’s kinda both actually.
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1 hr 22 min