Pigeon Club is the music of Wayne Whittaker, a multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter living in Los Angeles. As a sideman, Whittaker has worked with artists like Dawes, Diane Coffee, Haerts, and countless others. As a songwriter, Whittaker 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 second album, “Another Year In The Minors,” is another collaboration with Grammy-winning co-producers John Would (Fiona Apple, Warren Zevon) and Amy Wood (Fiona Apple, The Donnys The Amys). Together with a stellar group of friends and backing musicians, they unwittingly managed to document a major transitional period in the life of the songwriter.
Pigeon Club’s latest single, ‘Ancient History’ is a cinematic indie-folk epic, examining life, loss, and the ever-quickening pace of time under a sonic landscape that is equal parts Neil Young, Andy Shauf, and The Beatles. Or, as Rolling Stone France put it, “delicate and meticulously articulated pop.”
“My grandmother was in her early 90s when I moved to LA and I knew that realistically I only had a handful of opportunities to see her again, so that’s originally what I started writing about,” Whittaker explains. “But then early last year I lost a close friend from high school, Pat. He taught me so much about life and friendship and music – all within the small window of time that high school offers. A week or so after his funeral we tracked ‘Ancient History.'”
The single is accompanied by a poignant music video, a time capsule collage comprised of home videos from Whittaker’s childhood, and a recent rainy day porch performance shot in Los Angeles.
“Another Year In The Minors” is slated for a summer 2024 release.
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