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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.
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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| FULL TRACK Brugada | 4:33 |
| FULL TRACK Experience (Rhinoceros Remix) | 4:32 |
| FULL TRACK Meantime | 5:30 |
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muziekodroom wrote:
Play 2010, 1st and 2nd of october, Muziekodroom, Hasselt, Belgium With Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Junip feat. José Gonzalez, Part Chimp, Skip The Use, Plaid, Stian Westerhus, Joe Gideon & The Shark, Woodpigeon + More bands More info www.play2010.be www.muziekodroom.be
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Bazy0 wrote:
Yeah I just saw the IT crowd, pretty hilarious.
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normannoise wrote:
No one from the IT Crowd here?
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EricHynes wrote:
saw you guys supporting the portico quartet in Brighton, first time being in brighton also!... was an amazing show ye put on!!
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Funkster wrote:
An album of the month at www.getintothis.co.uk Link: http://bit.ly/47BCAj Writers always needed.
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markrich wrote:
Saw them in Bristol supporting the Portico Quartet. My first exposure to their music. Simply wonderful!
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BlackCoffeeDuck wrote:
Has done a Pink Floyd cover for MOJO magazine's The Wall Re-Built CD at: http://www.mojo4music.com/blog/2009/10/mojo_rebuilds_the_wall.html
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Arctic_Art wrote:
seeing them live in about 2 weeks. erm. are they good?
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RosieArches wrote:
This is areally nice video of how they made the album, featuring the infamous shed. Makes you wish you had one, too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5HkX9Uo68
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under_the_radar wrote:
Is there any point in music awards like the Mercury? Join the debate at http://www.scotsman.com/undertheradarblog
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davidgoosey wrote:
incredible band
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Xemper wrote:
Mercury Prize
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abraksas wrote:
So painfully beautiful....
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cravenind wrote:
Get the Sweet Billy Pilgrim remix of Catherine AD's 'Hand to the Tide' for FREE here: http://www.last.fm/music/Catherine+A.D./+freetracks
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Leczycki wrote:
Absolutely amazing stuff. More, please.
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JamesLebowski wrote:
"Twice Born Men" is incredible.
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star_struck_one wrote:
Amazing.
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kashmira77, Norberto_Bango, Chor-El and 6 other people added Sweet Billy Pilgrim to their libraries. Wednesday afternoon
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