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Golden Grrrls - New Pop 7”

Chris Devotion & The Expectations - Amalgamation & Capital (album)

Trailer Trash Tracys - Ester (album)

Throwing Up - Mother Knows Best 7”

Howling Wolf - Complete Chess Masters 1951-60

The Ketamines - A Rotten Bond/1 Yr (from Oddbox Singles Club Pt 2)

Cardinal - Hymns (album)

Proper Ornaments - Taking the Gamble Out of Buying 12”

Darren Hayman - January Songs (album)

Various: Marshall Teller EP 12”

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Album Review

Here We Go Magic
Pigeons Secretly Canadian

Article written by Ged M - Jul 12, 2010

Here We Go Magic: Pigeons

Luke Temple’s vocals initially sound so bloodless and laidback that I’m not sure how I’ll last the album, a feeling that seems to be confirmed when the opening track ‘Hibernation’ is so kooky and funky that I want to slap someone. Fortunately, the single ‘Collector’ follows, light and poppy and darting around on a Krautrock beat, and eventually Temple’s voice seems to grow into the songs. Those songs are built on surprising rhythms like ‘Old World United’ and the almost mathematical ‘Vegetable or Native’ that is sung in rounds, while they sound like a psych-lite version of the Flaming Lips on the floatier numbers. It’s generally quirky and it didn’t get its hooks into me despite a number of listens, but ‘Bottom Feeder’ stood out, a mildly psychedelic song that rejects trickery for melody and works all the better for it.

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