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Features Disc of the day
Pigeonhed
Pigeonhed
(Sub Pop, 1993)
Seattle post-rock boffins recycle soul’s past to create soul’s future. No-one listens.
I bought this CD in a now-dead independent record shop in Eastbourne in 1993, along with a copy of Urge Overkill’s Saturation. Both were selling for £3.99 and, before I parted with my money, the weary chap behind the counter felt the need to pipe up. “They’re £3.99 for a reason you know,” he cautioned. “They’re not Nirvana!” He can’t have been the only one who, in the early ’90s quest for yet more grunge, espied the Sub Pop label and stumbled upon the strange investment that was Pigeonhed’s 1993 debut. You could have hazarded a guess at what the producer of Nirvana’s Blew EP (Steve Fisk) could do with Satchel/Brad vocalist Shawn Smith but how many would have arrived at distorted post-soul minimalism, driven by ailing keyboards, hissing echo and Smith’s eerie Prince-on-Placidyl vocals? Listen to it now and you can hear fragments of Jeff Buckley’s Grace (especially in their ethereal cover of, yes, Amazing Grace) and a complete premonition of Portishead’s bad trip club groove, a year before Dummy emerged out of Bristol. Their next album, 1997’s The Full Sentence got the press and garnered a hit with The Lo Fidelity All Stars remix of Battleflag but this is the album that has lasted, still sounding weird, old, wrong and yards ahead of whatever exciting new soul talent is being foisted upon us this week.
Andrew Male
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 10:23 AM GMT 06/07/2008
Further Listening
Pigeonhed – The Full Sentence (Sub Pop. 1997)
Portishead – Dummy (1994)
Cody Chesnutt – The Headphone Masterpiece (Ready Steady Go, 2002)
Celebrate 20 years of Sub Pop! Check out this month’s issue of MOJO magazine now which is soundtracked by Sub Pop 300, an exclusive 15 track CD!
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