Pigeon Club is the music of Wayne Whittaker, a multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter living in Los Angeles.
As a sideman, Whittaker has worked with artists like Dawes, Diane Coffee, Haerts, and countless others. As a songwriter, Whittaker explores themes of self-reflection, doubt, anxiety, and the minutiae of everyday life with an inviting mixture of emotional transparency and self-effacing humor.
Pigeon Club’s second album, “Another Year In The Minors,” is another collaboration with Grammy winning co-producers John Would (Fiona Apple, Warren Zevon) and Amy Wood (Fiona Apple, The Donnys The Amys). Together with a stellar group of friends and backing musicians, they unwittingly managed to document a major transitional period in the life of the songwriter.
His song ‘Liar,’ is a lush indie rock vehicle that examines the aftermath of a defense mechanism malfunction, with both humor and heart. Then there is ‘Ancient History’, a cinematic indie-folk epic, examining life, loss, and the ever quickening pace of time under a sonic landscape that is equal parts Neil Young, Andy Shauf, and The Beatles. Or, as Rolling Stone France put it, “delicate and meticulously articulated pop.” The title track ‘Another Year In The Minors” is “a sort of a sad-sack anthem for blue collar, DIY artists. It’s a song about aging in the indie scene, about believing in what it is you’re doing, the art you’re making and why you’re making it, even in the face of unbelievable odds. There is no secret. It’s about showing up and grinding it out and not giving up…yet,” confides the artist.
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