"We’ve reached the point where you’ll admit / You don’t know who you’re living with / You could see right through me / If I let you closer to me / But I’m a liar..."
The sad spinning ornamental "Liar" by Pigeon Club, the effervescent indie rock project / moniker of Los Angeles singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer Wayne Whittaker will stick to you like cockleburs do to your socks while hiking in Griffith Park. From the shuffling surf rock (or is it Merseybeat beat) to the Farfisa-esque organ, Brit pop guitars, dreamy vocal melodies that feel particularly jangle pop-ish like 80's revival rock of 60's artists (band's like The Plimsouls or Squeeze) come to mind. AND you have Whittaker's self-deprecating lyrics (that could of easily spun out into self-loathing) full of whimsy, melancholy and broken hearts. The poetry is so good and I thought of a wonderful song wordsmith like Elvis Costello.
From Liner Notes:
“This was a really hard song to write,” Whittaker recalls, “structurally, it came together very quickly. But once I read it back, it became clear that this was going to be a particularly exposing three minutes. Thankfully, the touched upon themes are unmistakably human, so at the very least I’ve confirmed that I am indeed only human.”
[Pigeon Club’s upcoming second album, "Another Year In The Minors", is another collaboration with Grammy winning co-producers John Would and Amy Wood (Fiona Apple, Warren Zevon). Together, along with a stellar group of friends/ backing musicians, they unwittingly managed to document a major transitional period in the life of the songwriter.]
"Liar" is the kind of track that could easily be a theme song to a romantic film, a kind of sideways one and I like that. I also like the Official Video. It made me smile, even laugh and I am a hardcase, ha.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
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Pigeon Club is the music of Wayne Whittaker, a multi-instrumentalist musician/ songwriter living in Los Angeles. Outside of his own project, Whittaker has worked with artists such as Dawes, Diane Coffee, Haerts, and countless others.
Pigeon Club’s upcoming second album, Another Year In The Minors, is another collaboration with Grammy winning co-producers John Would and Amy Wood (Fiona Apple, Warren Zevon). Together, along with a stellar group of friends/ backing musicians, they unwittingly managed to document a major transitional period in the life of the songwriter.
Sonically, Pigeon Club has built its nest neatly between genres. There are the ubiquitous indie singer-songwriter overtones, jangly Beatle power-pop moments galore, and self-aware nods to “dad rock.”
As a songwriter, Wayne explores themes of self-reflection, doubt, anxiety, and the minutiae of everyday life with an inviting mixture of emotional transparency and self-effacing humor.
Pigeon Club’s latest single, ‘Liar,’ is a lush indie rock vehicle that examines the aftermath of a defense mechanism malfunction, with both humor and heart.
“This was a really hard song to write,” Whittaker recalls, “structurally, it came together very quickly. But once I read it back, it became clear that this was going to be a particularly exposing three minutes. Thankfully, the touched upon themes are unmistakably human, so at the very least I’ve confirmed that I am indeed only human.”
Survival skill for those unfit
To handle what we’re dealing with Seek a softer landing
The damage notwithstanding
Lyrically, parts of the song read like a relational autopsy report.
We’ve reached the point where you’ll admit You don’t know who you’re living with
You could see right through me If I let you closer to me
But I’m a liar
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