Woodpigeon Releasing Two Albums Next Year

12/17/08 5:13pm

by Mandy Savoie (CHARTattack)

Calgary folk-pop band Woodpigeon will domestically release their second album, Treasury Library Canada, on Feb. 3 via Boompa Records. It will come out in Europe six days later through End Of The Road Records.

"Treasury Library Canada feels more and more like a continuation of the diary composed on our first record, Songbook," says singer/songwriter/guitarist Mark Hamilton. "But where Songbook told the story of my time living overseas — from happy arrival to admittedly bitter departure — Treasury Library Canada compiles the sounds of struggling with place."

The album was previously available online and at Woodpigeon shows, but is now being officially released in a deluxe edition that will come with a 10-song bonus CD called Houndstooth Europa.

The eight-piece band will release their third album, Die Stadt Muzikanten, next fall.

You can listen to songs from Treasury Library Canada and Houndstooth Europa on Woodpigeon's MySpace page.

Woodpigeon will play two Canadian shows in the new year before embarking on a European tour. Here are their dates:

Jan. 8 Calgary, AB @ Big Secret Theatre w/Clinton St. John
Feb. 7 Vancouver, BC @ Performance Works w/Pascal Picard
Feb. 15 Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique-Rotunde
Feb. 16 Paris, France @ Planet Claire
Feb. 16 Paris, France @ Pont Ephemere
Feb. 17 Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Paradiso
Feb. 18 Hamburg, Germany @ Prinzenbar
Feb. 19 Berlin, Germany @ Schokoladen Berlin-Mitte
Feb. 21 Middlesbrough, England @ Westgarth Social Club
Feb. 22 Glasgow, Scotland @ The Captain's Rest w/The Miserable Rich
Feb. 23 Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England @ The End w/The Miserable Rich
Feb. 24 Manchester, England @ The Deaf Institute w/The Miserable Rich
Feb. 25 London, England @ XFM
Feb. 25 London, England @ Institute of Contemporary Arts w/The Miserable Rich
Feb. 26 Brighton, England @ The Albert w/The Miserable Rich

Here are the songs on Treasury Library Canada:

"Knock Knock"
"Piano Pieces For Adult Beginners"
"In The Battle Of Sun Vs. Curtains, Sun Loses And We Sleep Until Noon"
"I Live A Lot of Places"
"Cities of Weather"
"7th Fret Over Andres"
"A Moment's Peace For Mary Christa O'Keefe"
"Anna, Girl In The Clocktower"
"The Hamilton Academicals"
"Love In The Time Of Hopscotch"
"Emma Et Hampus"
"Now You Like Me How?"
"Bad News Brown"
"Tic Tac Toe/Woolen Endings"

Here are the songs on Houndstooth Europa:

"In Praise Of The West Midlothian Bus Service"
"Oberkampf"
"Thoughts On The One Who Got Away By The One He Left Behind"
"...A Given"
"Potsdamer Platz (Stomp, Stomp, Stomp)"
"Ladybug Ladybird"
"Matty John Chyzyk"
"Anybody Somebody Everybody"
"The Return Bus Ride Home"
"A Slight Return Home (Marshall Stacks Homeless Remix)"