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Album Reviews
Album Review: Woodpigeon – Treasury Library Canada (End Of The Road)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 9 February 2009
‘Treasury Library Canada’, eight-piece Calgary indie folkers Woodpigeon’s sophomore album, is, at its very core, lush, easy and melodic alternative pop. Like Sufjan Stevens and Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s, the band favour a large array of instruments and quirky, peculiar yet intriguing song titles like, ‘In The Battle Of Sun Vs. Curtains, Sun Looses And We Sleep Until Noon’. Channelling lead singer Mark Hamilton’s journey from Edinburgh and back home to Canada, the album is a loose set of stories that recount the importance of self, longing and memory. ‘Piano Pieces For Adult Beginners’ is absolutely stunning and Sufjan-esque in its layered piano melodies and reflective, catchy lyrics, and grabs attention right at the forefront of the album. Choral-layered ‘Bad News Brown’ could be M. Ward’s interlude in ‘Fuel For Fire’, but has a punchier, cleaner sound – when Woodpigeon attempt darkness, rays of sunshine still push through the gaps. There is nothing cloudy or indistinct about this album at all – every edge of it has been sanded off, and perhaps that is its only flaw. However, there is no denying that ‘Treasury Library Canada’ is emotive and extremely well produced; a sharp soundtrack to the beauty of nostalgia. TW
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