Pigeons – Liasons (Soft Abuse)
The third LP from the New York duo is packed with a naïve charm. Its lo-fi, DIY aesthetic and disregard for musical perfection places it somewhere between anti-folk and the C86 indie scene. The misspelt title echoes the childlike innocence of what is contained, where the most beguiling attribute is how fragile the recordings appear, as if one wrong note could bring the proceedings crashing down.

Wednesday Knudsen’s vocals are sickly sweet. They remind one of the Concretes’ Victoria Bergsman, and are set to an easy paced drum machine and washed over with reverb-heavy guitar, and the occasional tambourine shake, flute, organ or saxophone.

“Laisons” has an irresistible, drugged out wonkiness to it (no more so than “Invitations”) whilst keeping bohemian Paris well within its reach: two French tunes, one being a cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Laisse Tomber Les Filles”.
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