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Released: Sep 21, 2010
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MUSIC BELONGS TO THOSE WHO MAKE IT

Woodpigeon: Music Belongs To Those Who Make It from Anika Mottershaw on Vimeo.

"This is, I presume, a song about the music business's empty suits. (And not, I hope, the biz's bloggers.) But Mark Hamilton's artistic license, his sticking guns, aren't represented in roaring shouts or a steely stare. Instead, he executes one of the most precise songs of his career: something carved out of piano, voice, clarinet and strings. Everything is perfectly measured; nothing is to excess. And yet the song is not timid. It is merely quiet, baroque, sturdy as a man with a notebook full of marvels." - SAID THE GRAMOPHONE

MEMBERS

Mark Andrew of the Hamiltons and a rotating collective of talented folks (including, but not limited to)... Kenna Burima, Chris "The Glimmer" Dadge, Foon Yap, Scott "Cat-Nip" Munro, Daren Powell, Annalea Sordi, Aimee-Jo Benoit, Peter Moersch, Mike "Blades" Gratton, Brent Follett, Shane Turner, Ian Somers, Arran Fisher, Louise Hull, Jose Gonzalez, Beth Jeans Houghton, Joe Porn, Malcolm Benzie, Bart Bartholomew, Clea Foofat, Rob Ranger, Aaron Meyer

WHAT'S BEEN SAID

"**** It's bloody marvelous." - SUNDAY TIMES
"**** An inspiring meditation on exile and return." - THE GUARDIAN
"**** Seductive." - MOJO
"**** Melodic and affecting." - Q

"Absolutely majestic... this is the best album to come out of Canada since Funeral. 5/5" - ARTROCKER

"This is Arcade Fire with ration books and gas masks, or Elliott Smith fronting Sparklehorse... it's stunning, subtle and romantic." - NME

"Delightful ... poetic and effortlessly gorgeous." - THE WORD

"Refreshingly breathtaking, this is an album to fall in love with." - CLASH

"Sounds rather like The Pastels might have done had Brendan Benson circa Lapalco been in charge." - DROWNED IN SOUND

"Lovely ... relevant, modern and orchestral ... these are songs for a range of emotion." - THE NATIONAL POST

"Extravagant shows of brasses or strings spiral out ... Hamilton's light, resilient voice is tailor-made for mulling on the deceits and realities of what we see and do." - THE GLOBE AND MAIL

"Strings soar ... and voices blend like a cool breeze hitting the ocean mist ... Woodpigeon take flight with an ease that their name wouldn't make you believe." - EXCLAIM!

"Understated beauty with an unshakable longing ... meet your new indie folk heroes." - SUBBA-CULTCHA

"Hamilton's delightfully dour and lovelorn lyrics and sprightly, sweetly mellow music, makes the morse seem wholly palatable ... accomplished, quietly intelligent, playful and really rather enchanting." - BBC

"Rich acoustic chamber pop with quietly barbed lyrics." - UNCUT

"A tapestry of plaintive guitar, shuffling snare drums, twinkling glockenspiel and handclaps ... from swirling blizzard chamber-pop to hushed alt.country ... adrift in sweeping landscapes." - METRO

"A perfect balance of grandeur and intimacy, delight and melancholy... a left-field gem ... you can’t help but fall in love with." - CHROMEWAVES

"The next great Canadian breakout band." - NOW

"Sehr gut." - METRO UK

"They make the creepy sound charming" - THE GUARDIAN

“There is no finer pop writer in this country today than Calgarian Mark Hamilton” - VUE

"Le disc du jour!" - LES INROCK

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