Six Finger Satellite – “The Pigeon Is The Most Popular Bird (30th Anniversary Edition)” (Released 30th June 2023)

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//Sub Pop Records//

£25.99 – 2xLP, Limited “Loser” Edition Red and Blue Remastered Vinyl with Updated Artwork

30th-anniversary vinyl reissue of six finger satellite’s debut full-length, an absolute classic of angular noise-rock from 1993.

The album is a landmark of noisy, distressing post-punk, drawing influence from Gang of Four, The Birthday Party, and Wire while adding a healthy dose of the band’s own, unique sonic antagonism. Amongst the brittle rock tracks, The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird has dashes of ahead-of-their-time keyboard and studio experiments that became more prominent on the band’s later albums, presaging LCD Soundsystem, DFA Records, and much of the early-2000s post-punk revival. Pitchfork rightly called The Pigeon Is the Most Popular Bird “one of the best noise-rock records of the 90s,” writing that “the transitions from silly to searing highlight Six Finger Satellite’s unpredictable and caustic approach… this was the first of several examples of them spurning underground trends, and their most exhilaratingly bitter pill to swallow.”