The Pigeon Detectives put the onus on producer Richard Formby to take them out of their ‘comfort zone’ during sessions for their fifth album, and have now shared the first single ‘Lose Control‘.
“We wanted to work with someone that would challenge us in the studio and put us out of our comfort zone, not let us take any easy ways out with songs,” frontman Matt Bowman says. “Richard did this and made us change our approach completely from previous records.”
“We ended up ditching a lot of tunes that had a sound that could have been on the first albums as a result.”
Ahead of the album’s release in February 2017, the band tour the UK next month, opening with a visit to the Southsea Festival in Portsmouth.
Tour dates:
OCTOBER
Southsea Festival, Portsmouth (1)
The Face Bar, Reading (2)
The Borderline, London (3)
The Wardrobe, Leeds (6)
Broadcast, Glasgow (7)
Neighbourhood Festival, Manchester (8)
The Louisiana, Bristol (10)
Arts Centre, Norwich (11)
The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham (12)
The Welly Club, Hull (13)
Ku Bar, Stockton (14)