January 10, 2012 // – New York, NY – Woodpigeon will return with a new digital EP, For Paolo, January 24 via Boompa Records. Exclaim.ca is premiering the title-track, available for free download here. Led by songwriter Mark Andrew Hamilton, For Paolo was inspired by his parents, the cassette tapes they played on long, family drives across the prairies of Canada. Hamilton said, “My parents were always the type to find an artist and album they liked and then listen to it non-stop in the car for years. It’s these tapes which, whether I liked them at the time or not, formed an undeniable part of my musical DNA: Carole King, Falco, a truck-stop Hits of the 1960s compilation. The songs of the For Paolo EP are a valentine of sorts to those old cassettes of my parents – I’d like to think there’s more than just a dash of Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tango in the Night’ in the title track, a little bit of girly one-hit wonder in ‘One To Many’. But then again, whenever I think I’m getting pretty close at sounding one way, I’m the only one who hears it – so you’ll have to excuse the thought that there’s a little bit of Boys Don’t Cry’s ‘I Wanna Be a Cowboy’ and Iron Butterfly mixed in here somewhere too.”
For Paolo will kick off a busy 2012 for Woodpigeon, with much more to be announced in the coming weeks and months.
For Paolo track listing:
1. For Paolo
2. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Mark
3. Winnebago
4. By Lamplight
5. One To Many
6. For Paolo (Acoustic)
Track 1 recorded by Terence Deutsch at the Banff Centre
Track 2 recorded by Shelley Uprichard and Steve Lilley at the Banff Centre
Track 3 recorded by Shelley Uprichard and James Hewens at the Banff Centre
Track 4 recorded by Jonathan Hong at the Buddy Project, NY
Track 5 recorded by Tyler “Pink Drinks” Fitzmaurice at the Banff Centre
Track 6 recorded by Mark Andrew Hamilton at Studio 827, Calgary
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