Pigeon Detectives - Emergency Album Review

Emergency by Pigeon Detectives, Album Review

‘Emergency‘ is the sophomore album by Leeds band, The Pigeon Detectives.
Written and recorded in a three week blitz in the residential seclusion of Monnow Valley with uber-producer Stephen Street, (who has produced for bands such as Blur, Babyshambles, The Smiths, Feeder and Kaiser Chiefs) it’s a vindication for those who see The Pigeon’s as the most natural song-smiths of the entire Britpop boom.
The album was released May 26, 2008, just under a year after their platinum debut selling album Wait for Me.

Pigeon Detectives - Emergency Track Listing

1. This Is An Emergency - 3:11
2. I’m Not Gonna Take This - 2:44
3. Keep on Your Dress - 4:52
4. Don’t You Wanna Find Out - 2:44
5. I’ll Be Waiting - 3:19
6. She’s Gone - 2:07
7. Nothing to Do With You - 1:50
8. I’m a Liar - 3:16
9. You Don’t Need It - 2:47
10. Say It Like You Mean It - 2:43
11. Love You for a Day (Hate You for a Week) - 3:22
12. Making Up Numbers - 3:27
13. Everybody Wants Me - 3:42
14. Hidden Track - 1:28

The first track to be released as a single from the album will be This Is An Emergency on May 12, 2008 which was first played by Radio 1 on March 24, 2008.

Amazon Review

When history looks back on The Pigeon Detectives, will they be seen as anything more significant than a These Animal Men or Shed Seven to Kaiser Chiefs’ Blur? Their debut album, Wait for Me, achieved remarkable success in the bizarre, never-ending post-Libertines vacuum with a string of undoubtedly infectious and direct bouts of rabble-raising indie-fuzz. But lining up alongside The Wombats, The View, The Enemy, Dirty Pretty Things, The Courteeners et al, minions chipping away at the same rock-face, there are gems—occasionally, of course there are–but there’s also an inevitable mountain of sediment. And herein lies the problem for their typically difficult second album Emergency. While their approach may have matured a little, with “This Is an Emergency” bouncing on the Franz Ferdinand springboard and “Keep Oo Your Dress” having a bit of an Idlewild complexion rather than just plundering and shouting over Up the Bracket, the album has trouble lifting its head much above the parapet. “She’s Gone”, which has as much in common with Green Day’s buffed punk-pop as contemporary UK strands, and the mid-pace Kaisers-esque “Love You for a Day (Hate You for a Week)” are perfectly affable, serviceable Britpop, but the sirens are not blaring this time. There are scattered fires, but they’ll probably burn out on their own. No need to call 999. –James Berry

Pigeon Detectives - Emergency Album Information

Released 26 May 2008
Recorded January 2008
Genre Indie Rock
Label Dance To The Radio (UK), Cooperative Music (Europe/Japan/Australia)
Producer Stephen Street

sources en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_(Pigeon_Detectives_album) and amazon.com