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The Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me<br />
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ARTIST........: The Pigeon Detectives<br />
TITLE.........: Wait For Me<br />
LABEL.........: Dance To The Radio Ltd<br />
URL...........: http://www.thepigeondetectives.com/<br />
GENRE.........: Indie<br />
QUALITY:......: 231 kbps avg/ 44100Hz / Joint Stereo<br />
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RIP DATE......: 2008-01-06<br />
RELEASE DATE..: 2007-05-28<br />
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Tracklist:<br />
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01. Romantic Type 2:32<br />
02. I Found Out 2:03<br />
03. Don't Know How To Say Goodbye 1:55<br />
04. Caught In Your Trap 3:03<br />
05. I Can't Control Myself 2:48<br />
06. I'm Not Sorry 3:41<br />
07. You Know I Love You 3:04<br />
08. Stop Or Go 3:08<br />
09. You Better Not Look My Way 4:21<br />
10. Take Her Back 3:16<br />
11. Wait For Me 2:07<br />
12. I'm Always Right 3:01<br />
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Total 34:59<br />
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The (Advance) from group was not nuked, apart from on certain sites, as the "cut"<br />
was actually pressed onto the CD. Here is our (Proper_Retail) with scans. Please<br />
enjoy.<br />
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For those people who may think these whole 'New Yorkshire' business is a bit<br />
last year, then look no further to the Pigeon Detectives to disprove your<br />
theory. A steady stream of independently released singles and the inevitably<br />
large exposure on MySpace has meant that they're currently selling out venues<br />
bigger than the Kaiser Chiefs did at the same stage of their career.<br />
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It's easy to see why they're so popular. They have the knack of making spiky pop<br />
tunes with instantly addictive melodies feel utterly appealing, despite the fact<br />
that anything original or challenging has long been jettisoned. Just one listen<br />
will have you visualising the frenzied moshpit or packed indie dancefloor.<br />
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If you've heard any of the early Pigeon Detectives singles, you'll have a fair<br />
idea of what to expect. You Know I Love You could be their quintessential song,<br />
consisting of great big dirty guitar chords and a lustily sung chorus of "you<br />
know I love you...take off your clothes" which, after a couple of plays, is<br />
impossible to resist singing along to.<br />
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The Romantic Type and I'm Not Sorry are similarly appealing - short, snappy<br />
anthems with lyrics that everyone, not least their target audience of late teens<br />
and early 20somethings will be able to relate to: namely girlfriend trouble. I<br />
Found Out for example is a near perfect summation of trying to get over an<br />
ex-girlfriend with lyrics like "I found out you're going out with him / you<br />
would not believe the state I'm in". It may not be anything clever, but there is<br />
a kind of universal appeal.<br />
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However, the sheer breakneck pace of the album is ultimately to its detriment.<br />
More or less every song sticks rigidly to the same template - short, energetic,<br />
shout-a-long choruses and backing vocals - that by the time the album comes to<br />
its end, you're rather exhausted. What sounds so great live (and by all<br />
accounts, they're rather thrilling on stage) becomes a bit stale on record.<br />
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So while each track individually here sounds like a breath of fresh air, played<br />
12 times in a row it all becomes a bit samey. The acoustic slide guitars on the<br />
introduction to Can't Control Myself promise something a bit different, but<br />
after one minute it's back to the same old formula again. It's not that there's<br />
anything bad with that sound, but for a band with undoubted talent it would be<br />
nice to hear something a bit different.<br />
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Then again, it won't stop them becoming huge, and you can well imagine the witty<br />
age-gap tale of Take Her Back being taken to the nation's hearts, even if it<br />
does swing perilously close to the 'knees-up indie' of the likes of The<br />
Fratellis.<br />
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It's nothing revolutionary, but for a debut album Wait For Me is a confident,<br />
impressive effort that will hopefully pave the way for even better things to<br />
come. Bloody awful name, mind....<br />
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