AMONGST THE PIGEONS - DANCE MUSIC MADE IN BRIGHTON - short sweet and a tad jazzy

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REPEAT TO FADE EP (2010)

** Sound Advise (Isaac Ashe) **
BRIGHTON beatmaker Amongst The Pigeon's Repeat To Fade EP is worth playing over again.
A more sturdy, flowing collection than his eclectic LP Music To Brush Your Teeth To, the six-track release starts slow with ambient Mocha To Go and then progresses nicely throughout.
A little of the comical quirkiness of previous Amongst The Pigeons has been lost, and any song about a waltz such as Michael Jackson's Last Waltz should surely be three beats-per-minute, harrumph.
But nevertheless with tracks like the moody The Darker Side Of... and skankin' The Kids Of Today this excellent collection should be racing into your collection.

** Tasty Fanzine (James Borland) **
Right from the off Amongst The Pigeons’ use off ‘found sounds’ is evident: Opening song ‘Mocha To Go’ uses audio recorded at Belfast Airport to create the backdrop for this dark and intense start to the EP. It’s the perfect opening for what is to come, almost an “are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin…” type of track. It settles you in your seat ready for the fifteen minutes of lo-fi electronica that follows. That’s not to say that the EP lacks energy, it is in fact very powerful and energetic at times. However it doesn’t make you want to dance around the room - it’s the sort of thing you could stick on after a night out and relax to.

The influences in the music are very obvious, weird break beats like Aphex Twin, deep house moments like Orbital and spoken word and synth pads like Art of Noise. But it doesn’t sound like any of those artists, it sounds very unique. Maybe it’s down to its simplicity, or maybe it’s because Amongst The Pigeons is like a culmination of all of those influences rather than just one or the other. Either way, ‘Repeat to fade’ is a brilliantly interesting EP. 9/10

** Brighton Source (NC) **
Post-party mash-up music is the snappy soundbite accompanying this strange release, although anyone hoping to come down gently to its tonal niceties is likely to spiral back into a giddy hallucinogenic whirl. Eerie spoken vocals vie with dark electronic beats and everyday soundscapes, from Belfast airport to a gaggle of pissed-up teens, creating an uneasy yet wholly compelling package from the deepest recesses of the artistic psyche. ‘Michael Jackson’s Last Waltz’, in particular, sums up what one would imagine a remotely administered overdose might indeed feel like – pretty damn bloody spooky we’d imagine.

**Tuna The Day (Ade) **
Love it! .... Like a dark Mr Scruff.

MUSIC TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH TO (2009)

"Short, Sweet & a Tad JAZZY"
Rob Da Bank - Radio One

"Amongst The Pigeons has made a rather lovely album, maintaining a distinctly unlo-fi feel to his dreamy electro-house. It really is the sound of a radiant summer."
Dannii Leivers - The Fly

"A Bizarre collection of electronica propped up with sampled poetry, ticket collectors and random you tube."
NC - Brighton Source

"From wonderfully warm house to spasmodic IDM via trippy stories and scathing satire, there appears to be nothing he's incapable of."
David Jenkins - iDJ Magazine

"BRIGHTON-based dance DJ Amongst The Pigeons has scrubbed up well on his first offering. On first listen you wonder where the LP is going, meandering about in a world of blips and subdued beats. But then the individual tracks get you - like the fantastic lofi Frank Turner collaboration Larkin or smile-raising weirdness such as Bird Flew - and you realise that Music To Brush Your Teeth To is like one long quirky interlude from start to finish.."
Isaac Ashe - Sound Advice

"Amongst The Pigeons new record is an interesting mash of beats and loops. The quirky, playful scrapbook-like nature of each track; following one path before breaking up into something else, can bring to mind the exaggerated experimentation of The Orb, or KLF, fading from tune to broken beat to distorted noise and back.."Music To Brush Your Teeth To" is an intelligent record, calling on many different influences and recorded out of the studio which probably adds to the quirky aspect and the fuzzy production, making it feel quite real and solid for an album of electronica. It is full of interesting ideas and worth your time though."
Emma Gould - Room Thirteen

"The album is based upon a cloudiness of soaring loops, glitches, voice samples and electro beats, having samples that would have any sci-fi junkie cock-in-hand. It is perfect post-party mash-up music."
Shout4Music

Electrifying! And quite comical too. Each song has its own “jazzy” quality to it which makes it the perfectly churned butter for your toasted wheat bread! As you may have noticed, the album revolves around the main concept of “Pigeons” and is very clever in choosing the album art, which I believe is a pigeon trying to brush its teeth. Even the name of the songs revolve around the pigeon theme like “Pavlov’s pigeon” and “Bird Flew”.

I personally think the best track on the album has to be “Deep Housey” because it’s a collaboration of jazzy funk and futuristic electronica which makes it sound so modern and lively. Each song has bits of everything in it like laser sound effects and hallucinating percussion beats. And sound effects like excerpts of news and radio articles using very British accents. That’s probably the only vocal contribution to the album, but on the whole it works.

What really gave me some respect for the album was the thoughtful message on the cd cover... “peace & feathers xxx”
Naeem Mahmood

"It comes together well on the bleepy, clanging Bird Flew, or the lush The Red Lights That Guide You Home (Part One), or the gentle beats and newscast style sample of On A Train (In Holland) it’s really good dance music with mixed tempo’s. But when you can give Lemon Jelly a run for their money with a track like If You Unwrap The Wrapper You Leave Me Exposed or get Frank Turner to record with you on Larkin About then you are certainly on he right lines. ."
Kevin Trotter - The Beat Surrender

"Amongst The Pigeons is essentially a lo, lo, lo, lo-fi or no-fi and even gloriously nerdier version of Hot Chip. But his album ‘Music To Brush Your Teeth To’ is a lot more intriguing than and will make you’re brain bug out and probably make it feel a bit drained. Then there’s the Boards Of Canada-esque doomtronica of ‘The Red Lights That Guide You Home (Part One)’.

But then this is more than a good secret to keep to yourself, but whilst you do you might as well enjoy it.."
Ben Bradford - Subba Culture

"An interesting array of noises, shapes and soundscapes that take you from one corner of the speaker to another! Brilliant."
Katy Jay - WCRfm (101.8fm)

"Indie electronica meets classic detroit techno - quality result!"
Rich from solitonresearch.com

"Pure dark ambient beat's that will make the hair's on the back of your neck stand and take notice. Definitely a future classic. 2009 will be ATP's year"
Darran Mackin from the midweek mixtape show

ATP DEMOS (2008)

"The results of investigating this four track demo are positive.....there's something engaging about these ever so slightly blissful tracks that make Amongst The Pigeons well worth keeping an eye on"
RockMidgets.com - Demo Review

"Laid Back, Electro and Indie and the 3 main words I’d use to describe the track. I really like the track and recommend you check the group out if you like them"
George- Truetosound.net