The Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me (Dance to the Radio)
4/5
Strong and inevitably now very popular, The Pigeon Detectives LP leans heavily, drunkenly on the only marginally supportive shoulder of the average heartbroken 16 - 19 year old student sporting a trilby and pair of Converse. Yet as so often happens with this fickle generation, the band may have jumped on the proverbial band wagon seconds too late. But whilst 'Wait For Me' briefly misses the boat, it does however enthusiastically, and somewhat successfully, manage to doggy paddle behind it.
Saturated with all the usual teen crush scenarios ('I'll never take you back, I'll never take you back, I didn't mean to make you cr-y!') and drenched in contagious choruses ('Its not that I'm not the ro-man-tic type, It's just that I like what I chose to like' - there are a couple of lines that should be over familiar by now...), these twelve long awaited tracks, whilst predictably filling the '1,2,3,4... indie!' quota their A&R folk would have been ordered to fill, actually surpassed my expectations and dripped with optimistic, melodic charm. Jovial, mocking, well turned out and pleasurably sugar-coated, these strum-snacks are perfect for mainstream radio. And there's no problem with that.
Popping out of the speakers like The Strokes out of a wet sack, this jaunty pop-punk sing-along makes you want to indulge in a playmobil fringe, buy a second hand polka-dot dress and stand with cow hocks holding mildly demented poses in your local indie-club. Although not the most exciting of the current crop, 'Wait For Me' proves that sticking to what you know by using rule of thumb guitar lines and what one looking upon it in a less favourable light might call tedious lyrical themes sometimes actually pays off - it just seems unfortunate that each cutesy jingle cake is so heavily coated in a dated icing riddled with the now obligatory 'regional accent' which is quickly becoming 'so last week'.
Stream two tracks from 'Wait for Me' HERE.
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