New album from Puts Marie – Pigeons, Politicians & Pin-Ups During the End Time of Mankind

Take a journey with veterans of the Swiss indie scene, Puts Marie, on their much- anticipated new studio album, Pigeons, Politicians & Pin-Ups During the Endtime of Mankind. Step into the ominous world of homemade pigeon lofts, crumbling hotels, and dimly lit sex clubs, where a diverse collection of melodies and rhythms evoke dark, atmospheric images and ponderings. While always adhering to their own internal aesthetic, in this bold new collection Puts Marie seeks and achieves liberation from unnecessarily rigid song structures. Often calm, occasionally driving, ever intense—and always saturated with sad, seductive beauty—Puts Marie’s latest is an exquisite, irresistible soundtrack for the uncertain present.

Like an aged whisky, the depth of Puts Marie’s flavor is the result of a lengthy maturation process. Since its founding in Biel, Switzerland, over twenty years ago, the band has never stopped reinventing itself. From their early days as van-dwelling buskers to their years on the European festival circuit, Puts Marie drew freely from alternative rock, jazz, and hip-hop idioms, all without pigeonholing themselves. On Pigeons, Politicians & Pin-Ups During the Endtime of Mankind, the five band members continue their sonic experiment while honing in on a very particular and profound genre-defying sound.

Puts Marie’s previous album, from 2022, was completely improvised. Their albums that preceded that all consisted of traditionally structured songs. Here, the focus returns to artful compositions, but without any anxiety over verse-chorus-verse schemes, radio suitability or other time-tested recipes for success. Instead: innovation. Slowly and inexorably, sonic landscapes form; sounds and rhythms merge and build into a powerful current. Sometimes the raging stream spills out into a peaceful lake. Sometimes dangerous currents lurk within those seemingly placid bodies of waters—submerged currents that emerge upon successive listenings.

The defining ingredients of this refined new sound are a decentered guitar presence, the anachronistic shrieks of a Farfisa organ, pulsating bass and drums, and, on top of that, haunting stories, which appear initially as spoken, then are retold and reimagined via soaring, polyphonic harmonies. No single instrument or sound is in the foreground; the music has space to unfold, resulting in a hypnotic quality with layer upon layer of nuanced interplay.

The six new compositions were created collaboratively in the band’s rehearsal studio. Individual ideas and fragments were accessed collectively, then put through the mincer, smoked, sizzled, and simmered until they acquired the unmistakable taste of Puts Marie.

The band recorded the resulting tracks directly onto solid tape, walking that fine line between rawness and sophistication.Pigeons, Politicians & Pin-Ups During the Endtime of Mankind is a fantastic, idiosyncratic album that takes the listener down into abyss after abyss, but never abandons them at the bottom, or leaves them without the possibility of transformation just over the next horizon.

orchestration:

Sirup Gagavil – guitar

founder member of Puts Marie, freelance musician, engineer and owner of Yagwud Recordings.

Igor Stepniewski – bass
founder member of Puts Marie, musician in other bands like Mister Milano and Hugo Panzer. Also improvises in the experimental field with wind- as well as keyboard instruments.

Max Usata – voice
Musician, singer and actor(Lee Strassberg theatre and film institute, New York) Also playing in other bands like Mister Milano, Meta Marie Louise and King Pepe.

Beni 06 – keys
Freelance musician and painter as well as high demanded drummer, organ and keyboard player.

Tobias Schramm – drums
Appears as a drummer in numberless projects most of the time with different musical aesthetics. Lately with Disko Doom, Roman Nowka's Hot 3, Evelinn Trouble.

guests:

Rea Dubach – voice
Andi Marti – trombone

discography Puts Marie:

2024 – Pigeons, Politicians & Pin Ups during the Endtime of Mankind
2020 – Musique improviseé
2018 – Catching bad temper
2015 – Masoch I-II
2009 – After the Hangman Comes the Surgeon
2007 – Dandy Riot
2005 – Le drame du Pastis
2003 – Is God a Dog?
2001 – Musique Chinoise

Media contact :
Inga Häusermann
info@ingah.ch
+41 76 480 18 93

distribution:

www.atomiumverlag.ch

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