Pigeon Pit, have dropped new single “Bronco,” the track is off their forthcoming album Crazy Arms, available January 17 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. On the single the band’s frontwoman Lomes Oleander says, “Bronco is about being psycho. The whole album, but especially ‘Bronco,’ is about being a crazy bitch, about being dragged all over the place by the things that haunt us, by all the pieces of us we can’t control.” The track follows the band’s previous single “Keys To The City.” The band have also announced a hometown record release show in Olympia, WA on January 24 at the Capital Theatre.

Crazy Arms marks the band’s first release since becoming a nationally touring 6-piece band. It’s a melodic call to action for folks who listen to both The Weakerthans and CRASS. A night at the Ryman on slow-burn psychedelics and the dreams you choose to think out loud at sunrise. Crazy Arms is the sound of a band hitting their

As frontwoman Lomes Oleander tells it: “It’s last call for nuance before we all get put against the wall so I’ll just cheers to the human spirit: we’re all fucked up and crazy people. let’s get wild with it and love our humanity while we can, all our contradictions and flaws that make us real. this is a bunch of love songs for how fucked up we are, and how beautiful it is how we try anyway. how we struggle every day to change our shared reality, to produce a world around us that makes sense to us. when you see a genocide unfolding on your phone, see fascism and AI swallowing up reality, and you force yourself to push it down and not respond to your humanity inside you that calls you to intervene, when it feels like there’s nothing you can do, that’s what kills the human spirit. because that force of love and cooperation is humanity, that’s what makes sense inside of us. giving a shit is the unpopular opinion. I’m just writing about what it feels like for me to try to hang on in a world that’s trying to kill the human spirit.”

“We recorded Crazy Arms in my friend Vivienne’s basement, all analog onto a 1/2” tape through a 4-track, so it’s mostly live tracks, which is really fun. You can’t dub over a bunch of instruments or redo individual parts when you mess up. We dragged this piano across town in a van and squeezed it into her basement. It wouldn’t fit into the studio so I ended up playing the piano from the basement with all the mics and wires running out of the studio space. Working with all these insane restrictions forces you to get creative and gives the thing you’re working on a sort of living character. It gets fucked up through the process, like a kid becoming a person. It’s more country than the last one, it’s more pop punk, it’s more experimental, it’s more of everything. I’m just having fun with my friends. I couldn’t have any favorite songs, but there’s a song that Maddy (banjo, vocals) wrote on it, which is just so special to me and her voice is so unique and devastating.”

Pigeon Part
Crazy Arms
Track List
Ernest Jenning Record Company

1. Bad Advice
2. Apple
3. Alone In The Basement (For August) (Japanther Cover)
4. Tide Pools
5. Stone Song
6. Dear Johnny
7. Bronco
8. Maddy’s Song
9. Hot Shower Winter Morning
10. Keys To The City
11. Josephine County Blues
12. Run Your Pockets

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