The Pigeon Detectives: 'Everybody Wants Me'

Very often denigrated and dismissed, with 'Everybody Wants Me' The Pigeon Detectives shuffle by with the bare bones of a modern indie guitar rock song - no change here folks. Hooks appear by default and it’s through the incessant recurrence of them that the song attains its catchiness rather than through any kind of inherent quality.

While it would be churlish to attempt to deny its innate catchiness, I cannot confer upon it any more praise of any kind. It is ridiculously repetitive and innovative in its vacuity. This blatant, full-frontal insipidness is what makes the band what they are - bland is inseparable from the Pigeon Detectives' brand, and as long as these things are also synonymous with Radio 1 I suppose we’ll have to put up with them for a while longer.

Released on 28th July 2008 by Dance To The Radio.

Written by Richard Wood.