Artists

Woodpigeon

What is it with Canada and collectives? With a core membership of eight, Woodpigeon centre around the folksy tendencies of the Calgary-born but well-traveled Mark Hamilton - initially known as the none-too-catchy Woodpigeon Divided By Antelope Equals Squirrel in Edinburgh, the band's first incarnation was in Edinburgh. From debut Songbook - released on home soil in 2006 before crossing the Atlantic two years later - through to 2009's Treasury Library Canada, their not-a-million-miles-away-from-Sufjan lusciously orchestrated folk is destined for slow-burning, long-lingering success.

Discography

Albums: 
Songbook (Rectangle Records) 2006 (End Of The Road) 2008
Treasury Library Canada (End Of The Road/Boompa) 2009
EPs: 
Sketchbook (self-release) 2005
Pigeonbooth: Volume the First 2005
Snow Shovel (self-release) 2005
...A Given (self-release) 2006
Houndstooth (self-release) 2007
Chrous of Wolves (self-release) 2008
La Commission Scolaire (Boompa) 2009
Singles: 
Death by a Ninja (a Love Song) (self-release) 2006
That Was Good But You Can Do Better (self-release) 2008

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Woodpigeon

Articles

I’ll admit that I’m not the biggest fan of lists of this type — the act of chronicling the “best” of anything from a particular year or decade makes it seem as though that year has nothing left to offer, that the vaults are closed. I know without question that my...

Dragging an Albertan collective around Europe and losing his voice in the process, Woodpigeon's Mark Hamilton tells Ragged Words what he has learned.