Pilotlight, The Post War Musical
Posted on February 9, 2010 by Jane Ward
The Post War Musical is the début album from Irish band Pilotlight. Recorded in France in Black Box Studios, a converted stables in Noyant La Gravoyere, the album took two weeks to put together. It produced by David Odlum, who has previously worked with acts such as The Frames and Gemma Hayes
Pilotlight
This album is a rarity in that it really doesn’t sound like a first album. It’s incredibly polished and beautifully constructed, they have the confidence of a band that know their own sound and know what works for them.
The first track All Purpose Underneath is quite melancholy almost touching on Sigur Ros. From this the album bursts into an energetic second track Pulling on Doors That Say Push, she screeching guitars and heavy drums are a stark contrast to the calm and softly vocalised first track.
The album is punctuated beautifully with track four; Bringing Flowers to the Black Banks, a short instrumental song leading wonderfully into Health and Safety, with twinkling Xylophone and military beat drumming reminding the listener of the title of the album. The Post War Musical was a project introduced by the British government after the Second World War to boost morale and bring hope to a landscape devastated by loss.
The Post War Musical is a really fantastic album, influenced by four friends “sharing in enjoyment of the cathartic process of listening to a sad song…George Orwell’s observations of society, Francis Bacon’s use of colour and violent resolve, Michael Gondry’s neosurrealism to explore the nature of surrealism”.
The Post War Musical will be available from February 19th on iTunes, in Tower Records, HMV and some independent music shops. The band can be found at www.myspace.com/pilotlightmusic and www.pilotlightmusic.com and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/pilotlightmusic
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Tags: All Purpose Underneath, Black Box Studios, Bringing Flowers to the Black Banks, David Odlum, Gemma Hayes, Health and Safety, Pilotlight, Pulling on Doors That Say Push, Sigur Ros, The Frames, The Post war Musical
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Fantastic music. I’ll be waiting to see more from them I loved it!
Argh! The review is like a visit to the optician.
Looking forward to the album though. Been an awful long time coming.