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Radiation Blues is all about the Chernobyl disaster, singer Harry said “The lyrics are a play-by-play of what happened hour-by-hour. I read accounts of people involved and used that as a way of retelling the story of this awful event through a more easily digestible medium”. 

This song has Pigeon Wigs in full bat-eating mode, an ode to their favourite rockers growing up, instrumentally and vocally. Harry also said “I almost passed out singing that last big note, I’d not practiced it at all before recording as I’d only done it once before whilst jamming with the band. They asked me to do it last minute in the studio and after the first attempt I was seeing stars, I did it one more time but I think that first wail is the one that appears on the recording”.

Radiation Blues

NIKKI (MIX 3)

Embracing reckless abandon - Near the Knuckle is the urgent frustration of knowing you're with the wrong person and the desperate compulsion to not be alone dressed up in doozie rocker.

Quotes about Near the Knuckle:

"Primal and rather sexual"

"What just might be the strongest debut of the year"

"Near The Knuckle’ exudes a kind of raw attitude that could only be reproduced in physiological terms by a grizzly bear that just learnt how to play power chords"

Radiation Blues

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