After a three year gap since last album “Emergency”, The Pigeon Detectives are back with quite a lot of change in sound. “Up, Guards and At ‘em” doesn’t really pick up until midway through third track “What Can I Say?” during the breakdown into the more upbeat, typical Pigeons’ sound.Yet latest single “Done In Secret” does revert back to what’s expected from the band, with its arpeggiated final chorus licks, jaunty power chords and general catchiness (even if the guitar line is perhaps too similar to The Strokes’ “12:51”.) Also “What You Gonna Do” purveying an constant infectious bass line, and “Go At It Completely.” But it seems a shame that the only songs on the album with true substance are those that sound reasonably alike those from first album “Wait For Me.” Plus, fair enough the band have tried at incorporating some slower, ballad-like songs such as; “I Don’t Know You” and “Turn Out The Lights,” a reasonable attempt to prove their maturation.
Thus in all, “Up, Guards and At ‘em” isn’t a bad album, but it certainly isn’t as great as what was expected from a prolonged break for the band. But at least now they’re back on the scene and will hopefully triumph with their next writing effort and main stage slots this summer at Reading and Leeds.
Jonathan Hatchman.
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