The primal energy of Black Flag and Fear mixed with the ferocity of Sabbath and the vocal interplay of The Pixies.

Here's what Rob Higgins says of the creation of Hawk vs. Pigeon: “We didn’t use any click track, we didn’t use any ProTools session files. We just turned on the computer, turned on all the machines, hit all these old pre-sets – everything was vintage and old – and just dumped it all into the computer. So when we got home it wasn’t all broken up as songs. It was just one session file with eight hours of jamming. It was, like, ‘What am I gonna do with this?’ Literally, I had to go in and listen to every take of everything and find cool takes and add overdubs and vocal sweetener to them and that was it. I just picked good performances. Whatever it was, it was.” True, you couldn’t pull an achievement like Hawk vs. Pigeon off without the time and experience and roadwork collectively logged by the members of Dearly Beloved over the years that led us to this point. Higgins – the nephew of Rush bassist sans pareil Geddy Lee – alone has a resume that includes Change of Heart, Tristan Psionic, By Divine Right, Rocket Science, Doctor and even a couple of stints as touring bass player for Our Lady Peace, while Chow was part of fondly remembered Toronto combo Sticky Rice and Maguire plays with Peter Elkas. The resulting record can be summed up by the exultant refrain to “Living Proof”: “What we have right here is real.” No fucking around, no scheming, none of the sometimes too-overthought “look at me” musicianship that occasionally made pieces of previous Dearly Beloved albums more admirable than listenable. This is simply the sound of a band getting on with it, having fun again and creating incredible music divorced from the stifling effect of intentional creation.”

Additional Details

Label: Aporia Records

Genre: Alternative/Punk

Run Time: 36:31 mins

Release Date: 10/14/12

UPC: 829750005529