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“She is still, is not still, still is not still” the Photographs of Bill Henson & DANIELS’ Pigeons

Jason — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:57:24 +0000

When we’re writing songs or working on ideas for things we often keep a lot of reference material most of which is images we find on-line and such. While we were writing ‘Pigeons’ we had kept these photographs from Bill Henson.
More than a few of the tracks on the LP deal with ideas of youth, transience and ambiguity and these amazingly open and suggestive pictures just looked so much like the movie playing in our head.
Funny thing is, we had kind of forgotten about them by the time we made the Pigeons video and although we talked a lot with DANIELS about who the girl in the song was we never mentioned or sent them the images.
But somehow they nailed it.
see for yourself

Radical.

more Bill Henson:

PIGEONS video!“Laughing like a right loon/slavering at the silvery moon /waiting for the room to fall in.”

Eleanore — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:17:38 +0000

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The first single off the new LP. Directed by DANIELS.

When we started making the video the two Daniels asked about the main character in the lyrics and we said,
“She’s drifting between weekends with her friends in the city center. There’s dirty pigeons wandering around. In the city, even the birds are ugly and filthy. She sneaks out the house. She’s got a crush and they hook-up but she’s doing it more out of boredom and he’s doing it because he’s a teenage boy. It’s like a looped narrative, every weekend, the same thing. She makes mistakes, possibly very, very bad mistakes but she’s always in control. She’s smarter than most of the people she meets. Up on the roof she looks at the city and the pigeons flying in circles above and wonders why don’t they just fly away?”

What we liked most was how they took our story and went in their own direction so the video almost becomes like a new verse to the song… a totally insane magic realist verse.

The single is out as a 12″ and digitally Worldwide on 13 September (6 September North America), backed with remixes by Blawan and Walls. The full album comes out a week later!
More here
Pre-order the single here
Pre-order the LP here

and here’s the full lyrics.

PIGEONS

Saturday comes,
Sunday comes, we go…
We go…
Saturday comes,
Sunday comes, we go…
We go…

Kicking on the edge of town
Counting all the pigeons down
Walking in the steps of men.
I have the feeling they’re not breathing.

She’s shaking like a rattle
Sneaking out, the hour’s still
Waiting for the room to fall in
Watching the time unwind.

Saturday, Saturday
Saturday comes,
Sunday comes, we go…
We go…
Saturday, Saturday
We go…

Kicking on the edge of town
Counting all the pigeons down
Walking in the steps of men.
I have the feeling they’re not bleeding.

Laughing like a right-loon
Slavering at the silvery moon
Waiting for the room to fall in
Waiting for him to come.

Saturday, Saturday
Saturday comes,
Sunday comes, we go…
We go…
Saturday, Saturday
We go…

She is still not still is not still.
He is here and not here at all.

Cold grey morning,
Waking in his room she goes
Crawling out the window,
Climbing up the crooked stairs.
Above the ceiling leaning tracing pigeons
Turning circles in the morning sky.
“I don’t know why, you don’t just fly away,
Fly away!
Fly away!”

Saturday comes,
Sunday comes, we go…
Saturday comes,
Sunday comes, we go…
Saturday comes,
Sunday comes, we go…
I don’t know why, you don’t just fly away,
Away, away, away
Saturday comes,
Sunday comes, we go…
I don’t know why, you don’t just fly away,
Away, away, away
We go…

‘Gigantic Tom Tom’

Jason — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:02:47 +0000

Back when we were working on the EP and LP we actually made two versions of the track ‘Tom Tom’. The EP version was one we worked on with Jacques Renault, and now here’s the ‘Gigantic Tom Tom’ version.
The Hundred In The Hands – Gigantic Tom Tom by snipelondon
Truth be told, ‘Gigantic Tom Tom’ is actually the original version. We made it with Chris Zane and Alex Aldi and then deconstructed it with Jacques for the EP version.
We always liked both versions but somehow thought the more sparse Jacques version went along with the hazy vibe of ‘This Desert’ a little better. But now here it is!
Download it for free here

’she is still, is not still is not still He is here and not here at all”

Jason — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:10:30 +0000

Here’s the first new track off our debut LP
The Hundred In The Hands – The Hundred In The Hands by Warp Records

And a remix from Foals!
The Hundred In The Hands – Pigeons (Foals XIII Remix) by thehundredinthehands

DEBUT LP OUT SEPTEMBER 21!

Jason — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:01:14 +0000

01 Young Aren’t Young
02 Lovesick (Once Again)
03 Killing It
04 Pigeons
05 Commotion
06 This Day Is Made
07 Dead Ending
08 Gold Blood
09 Dressed in Dresden
10 Last City
11 The Beach

UK & The Continent!July/August festivals & shows!

Jason — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:55:38 +0000

JULY
Sat 03-Jul UK London, Hyde Park Wireless Festival, Third Stage (4.30pm)
Thu 08-Jul UK Manchester Ruby Lounge
Fri 09-Jul UK Coventry Kasbah
Sat 10-Jul UK Southampton Unit (club night)
Tue 13-Jul UK London, Soho White Heat, Madame JoJo’s
Thu 15-Jul UK London, Shoreditch Old Blue Last, Vice Issue Launch
Fri 16-Jul UK Bath Moles
Sat 17-Jul UK Southwold Latitude Festival, Sunrise Arena
Sun 18-Jul NL Nijmegen Festival De’Affaire
Wed 21-Jul FR Paris La Plage de Glazart
Sat 24-Jul UK Sheffield Tramlines Festival
Fri 30-Jul UK London, Shoreditch Cargo (w/ Dum Dum Girls)
Sat 31-Jul UK London, Brixton TheRest Is Noise (w/ Jimmy Edgar)

AUGUST
Thu 05-Aug UK Brighton Freebutt
Fri 06-Aug UK Eastmor Castle Big Chill, Clash Stage
Sat 07-Aug UK London, Camden Proud Gallery
Sat 14-Aug FR St Malo Route Du Rock Festival, Main Stage
Fri 20-Aug UK Wales Green Man, Far Out Stage
Sat 21-Aug NL Lowlands, Xray Stage

Details on Myspace

Rules The Waves! Moving to the Uk for the summer!

Eleanore — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:32:45 +0000

After this US tour, we’re going to shift to London while we play a bunch of festivals. We’ll be gone all of July & August. Out of the Brooklyn humidity!
The Warp folks were asking us what we thought about it all, you know, Britan as such and we said…

Jason “We both grew up with anglophile dads well steeped in British music. Beatles in the crib, wot wot. Mine subscribed to Q and in those pre-Nirvana ‘Nevermind’ days, UK mags were about the only place you could find out about the good bands. Bands like the Smiths were not making it on national television in America while, ‘our’ bands like Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. were all but invisible. First place I used to go when I walked in a record shop was the NME and The Face to start flipping through reading reviews before heading over to the ‘Alternative/Import’ section. I can still remember clearly staring at picture in Melody Maker of kids in ridiculously baggy jeans and floppy hats milling outside a Happy Mondays show and thinking it was about the coolest thing I’d ever seen. Manchester, so much to answer for. Seriously, I still get psyched when we end up in some of these places. And the first time I got reviewed in Q and NME, it was a real milestone.”

Eleanore “Last fall, we came over to work on the LP with Richard X for two weeks. He took us around to some of his DJ nights and we were really excited to be seeing a bit more of London than we usually do on tour. It was awesome to just walk around go to the Tate Modern and be able to hangout in these shops like Rough Trade and Pure Groove. England just seems to get so much more excited about music than they do in the states. And what Jason’s talking about really hasn’t changed too much, it seems like we almost always have one eye clued toward the UK. Habitual Guardian readers. The fact that we’re going to be over and playing these festivals with some of our favorite bands and getting a chance to get out of London and see even more is amazing.”

Jason “And then there’s the Roast. We’re coming over for about 9 weeks in July/August, which means at least 9 Sunday Roasts. Seriously. This is a big deal to us. It might be the single greatest cultural achievement the British have given the world.”

Here some of our favorite all time British bands and a playlist of 101 bands from Ingerland, Ireland & Scotland!

see all 101 here

Official video for Tom Tom

Jason — Fri, 28 May 2010 13:40:37 +0000

buy it here
more here

HAIL HAIL PHYSICAL MUSIC! RECORD STORE DAY!

Jason — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:29:31 +0000

This Saturday is record store day! What could be better than grabbing new records on a Saturday?
We’re celebrating with a special limited edition 45 of ‘Undressed In Dresden” with a rad beat-less/synth-apella dub version of Max Pask’s mix. It’s only available in the shops.

We’re also djing over at Other Music in NY from 4-5 p.m.
Other has a big day planned with dj sessions from the likes Liquid Liquid’s Sal Principato and others and live performances from The Drums and The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart.
They’ll be announcing more details soon check it out here
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Speaking of records,
The debut Dum Dum Girls LP is really great. It’s not exactly obscure or what have you, but it is good and you should get it. Lead Dum Dum ‘Dee Dee’ has forsaken the lo-fi trappings of her first EP relying on the ferocity of her hooks and voice to get the job done. She has a killer voice in the manner of John Lennon’s better stompers, a born yeller who has enough reedy grit to make you taste the sweat in the room. The production keeps plenty of the dirty bits to uphold the roots but those bits never overwhelm the tracks. The kicks are tight, the guitars fuzzed out and the songs super catchy. Think a crisper Vaselines, a looser Ramones, a much much cooler Screeching Weasel, Black Flag meets Shangri Las uptown.

We also recently picked up Zola Jesus, the new Minimal Wave comp, the now out on vinyl Raekwon, Beach House (Eleanore’s favorite LP this year) and this classic re-pressed Althea & Donna.

These are good records. Maybe Saturday’s the day to pick them up.

Physical Music 2

Jason — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:17:36 +0000

Just arrived today!
It’s the Dresden 12″
Out April 6