Listen: Pigeons – Dead Echo

If there’s one thing that we’ve learnt about Bronx duo Pigeons over the past few years, it’s that they’re enormously gifted at taking a relatively classic melody and twisting it into something haunting, melancholic and beautiful. Take their cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s ‘Laisse Tomber Les Filles’, for example, a French 60′s pop classic which the duo transformed into a reverb-laden, spooky charm of a song.

Following the release of their third album, Liasons last year, the prolific duo return with ‘Dead Echo’, a suitably off-kilter, austere, creeping track, with dissonant guitars and vocals bathed in analogue crackle. Subtly shifting, constantly building, and completely captivating, the vocals of singer Wednesday Knudson lead us through the disjointed, dark and winding melody of the track as a stammering guitar rises and falls alongside her. It’s certainly interesting, and marks the first taste of what’s to come from Pigeons’ new album, They Sweetheartstammers which is due to be released through Soft Abuse in November.

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