Formed in 2002, The Pigeon Detectives are Matt Bowman on lead vocals, Oliver Main and Ryan Wilson on guitars, Dave Best on Bass, and Jimmi Naylor on drums. Friends from school and having known one another since they were 12, the band enjoyed a meteoric rise starting in Leeds where they signed with Local label Dance To The Radio, and growing into the UK Music scene rapidly with their first record Wait for Me going on to sell over half a million records and resulting in headlines at London's Alexandra Palace and Leeds' Millennium Square arena.

Broken Glances is a more eclectic LP than previous albums and was recorded with Richard Formby; a producer associated with bands like Wild Beasts, Leftfield, Ghostpoet and Spaceman 3. Speaking about the move to work with a more leftfield producer-singer Matt Bowman says '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. 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.'

There is also a more reflective theme throughout Broken Glances, with the band having spent years touring songs from their youth they describe as “aspirational” they are now writing more about the experiences they've had and documenting where they've been. A theme that is apparent in album tracks like the brooding 'Postcards', the claustrophobic 'Wolves', and the sparse arrangement and raw lyrics of 'Falling in Love'. That's why these songs don't necessarily smack you straight in the face like previous albums.”

Tour: March 2017

2 Mar: Whelan's, Dublin

3 Mar: Limelight 2, Belfast

4 Mar: Electric Circus, Edinburgh

5 Mar: Stereo, Glasgow

7 Mar: The Leadmill, Sheffield

8 Mar: O2 Institute 2, Birmingham

9 Mar: Rescue Rooms, Nottingham

10 Mar: Sugarmill, Stoke

11 Mar: Gorilla, Manchester

13 Mar: Thekla, Bristol

14 Mar: Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth

15 Mar: Electric Ballroom, London

29 April:  Live at Leeds

Comedian Stewart Lee writes the new bio for the part-jazz, part-prog, part-psych, part-tech-metal sounds of the Brighton trio as they announce their new record;

 “I’m nearly 50. I don’t know what’s going on anymore, I’ll admit. The internet’s availability of all sources ever simultaneously has destroyed my understanding of cultural development as a logical progression.  All music is time travel, forward and backward both at once, now.

But three years go my friend Simon Oakes, of prog-psych conceptualists Suns Of The Tundra, directed me to a YouTube clip of The Physics House Band. Impossibly youthful looking, and sounding like vintage seventies stadium-prog behemoth, but stripped of any errors of taste and judgment, fed amphetamines, made ashamed of their record collections, slapped in front of the whole school, immersed instead in post-rock procedure and practice, and made to apply their obvious talent and ability to a more worthwhile end than their forebears.

Three years on here’s their second record, a super-dense sci-fi mindfuck of a thing, music scholarship charity case keyboards in combat with squally spacerock guitars, dub boom bass and multi-time-sig clatter; a territory staked out over mushrooms at break-time, on the top floor of the multi-story car park, overlooking the ‘70s Bauhaus shopping centre concrete functional fountain square, but now gone all Escher in the aftermath, like a black and white architectural schematic drawing dipped in tie-dye.

Mercury Fountain doesn’t stop, a twenty nine minute surge of tracks that it would be a crime to split apart, the kind of part work The Physics House Band’s progenitors aimed at but never quite produce. It loads you into a water canon and shoots you out through its intermingled opening tracks, the group finally allowing you a pause for breath at the half way point, during 'A Thousand Small Spaces'; and then you’re kicked out of the airlock back into the Negative Zone again in 'Obidant', the laws of physics in reverse, Newton’s apples flying upwards past your grasping fists, your hair on end, arching to follow them, until you’re finally abandoned into the techtonic drift of 'Mobius Strip II'.

It’s a two black Americano experience that makes me wish I still had pin-sharp hearing to lose.”

 - Stewart Lee.

Brighton-based trio The Physics House Band are back with their boundary-breaking take on jazz-influenced psych-rock as they announce their first record in four years with new mini-album Mercury Fountain, due April 21st via Small Pond Records. It follows 2013’s EP Horizons/ Rapture, which sold out twice over on CD & vinyl.

The Physics House Band are Sam Organ (guitar/keys), Adam Hutchison (bass/keys) and Dave  Morgan (drums). The three met at university in Brighton, almost by accident, after the breakup of their previous bands, but the result couldn’t sound further from an accident. The Physics House Band posses a musical prowess way beyond their years, creating avant-garde compositions that capture everything from jazz to prog to psych to tech-metal to tech-rock. After playing shows with the likes of Alt-J, Jaga Jazzist, Django Django, 65daysofstatic, Three Trapped Tigers, and Mono , The Physics House Band are set to tour the UK this May, with more dates to be announced soon.

Listen to ‘Calypso’ here

See The Physics House Band live:

May

7th - Manchester, TBA

8th - Glasgow, The Hug and Pint

9th - Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

10th - Bristol, The Fleece

11th Brighton, The Haunt

12th London, Kamio