Sweet Billy Pilgrim

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The music of Sweet Billy Pilgrim is first and foremost, staggeringly beautiful. But it’s a shy beauty – a lingering ambience and a distant clicking in the night, church windows built from littered glass, love songs that look to the day when even the children are forgotten. Strangers tell you their heartbreaks. Fountains toss back their coins. And just when you start to feel skeptical, in shambles singer Tim Elsenburg – shaggy and dour, wringing joy from his melodies with a bashful croak and a glorious croon.

Sweet Billy Pilgrim are exemplars of English atmospheric art-pop, and it’s natural that they would release their second album, Twice Born Men, on David Sylvian’s SamadhiSound label. Even compared to a Radiohead or an Elbow, Sweet Billy Pilgrim achieve a sublime balance between their hooks and their moods, their ambitions and their humility.

They also have a sense of humour. Elsenburg is still smacking himself for telling an interviewer that Twice Born Men, is a love album – but “not in a Barry White way.”  It’s a fair description.  Twice Born Men, “is a kind of concept album, in the loosest sense,” says Elsenburg. “It starts at the end of the heart’s little journey and then works its way back to the beginning, which is actually the end anyway.”

In the years since their 2005 debut, We Just Did What Happened And No One Came, they’ve remixed Sylvian, Steve Jensen, and Steve Adey, toured to international acclaim, including a celebrated appearance at the Punkt Festival (both in Norway and London) and currently working with fellow British artist Adem on a commission for the BBC.
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