Some bands are lucky to have one great record in them. Others, like Pigeon Pit, casually drop two in a single year — and that’s after already releasing a classic in 2022. Without fanfare or even a whisper of promo, Leash Aggression just appeared last Friday — ten new songs that sound anything but like leftovers.
If Crazy Arms (released back in January) felt expansive and layered, Leash Aggression is its raw, stripped-down counterpart. It’s lo-fi in the best way and I feel that this is Pigeon Pit in their most natural state: unpolished, emotionally direct, and entirely disarming.
Frontwoman Lomes Oleander has described her songwriting as “maximalist journaling,” and that feels spot on. These songs read like dispatches from a life fully lived — heartbreak, queerness, protest, recovery — all tumbling together with unfiltered honesty. Sonically, imagine the campfire punk version of The Mountain Goats— acoustic strums, a whole lotta words and voices that crack just right. It’s scrappy, political, and full of heart.
Two albums in a year and both are keepers? That’s rare air. Leash Aggression proves that when it comes to sincerity and songwriting, Pigeon Pit are untouchable right now.
Out now on all the formats via Ernest Jenning Record Co.
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