We have many more stories to tell because of this album, and we’ll get to those soon.įor now, here is the very first P&P compilation album, See You Next Year. Making this album was a labor of love, long days, and frequent reminders that we are so lucky to do work that involves so many talented creatives. As previously mentioned, we think about a lot of things that never happen, but we really hope that this is an exception. But one reason we liked this title is because it sets us up to make this an annual event. The album is called See You Next Year for a lot of reasons-some are obvious, others not so much, and it’s all probably better left unsaid. So having him back for See You Next Year is a full-circle moment. This was back in the day before Brockhampton was a famous boyband, and HK designed the cover to that project. It was another shot in the dark but fuck it, we had Mike Dean involved, so why not reach out to HK? Years ago, before we knew we could make an album, we made a SoundCloud mixtape. He also turned out to be the perfect fit for a Pigeons & Planes project-he’s open-minded, down to earth, and his love for music is obvious in everything he does. The artists all got in sessions with Mike Dean and he mixed and mastered the whole thing. I’m not one who appreciates the intricacies of mixing and mastering as much as I probably should, but I can tell you this: Mike Dean is a genius and he made this whole project sound bigger, better, and more cohesive. We’ve got incredible new songs from Teezo Touchdown, Terry Presume, Redveil, Fana Hues, EKKSTACY, Wallice, Dreamer Isioma, Brevin Kim, Ben Reilly, Baird, and Sash-you can read more about each of them here.
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Months later, we’ve actually got a full album and it’s out on all platforms today. Mike Dean agreed to executive produce the project. We laughed, because obviously it was a joke, but soon after we’re on a Zoom with Mike Dean and it turned into not-a-joke. We said, “We’re making an album!” And Mike fucking Dean commented on it: “You need an executive producer to finish it.” Then we posted about it on Instagram before we even had any music. We partnered with and ADA, and we started reaching out to artists we love asking for songs. For years, we’ve been a small team making music-related content for the internet, curating playlists, and producing concerts-officially releasing a project of original music always felt out of reach.Īnd so, we finally decided to make an album.
We’d talk about making an album at least once every year, but it never happened. You get antsy, you accept that nothing lasts forever, and out of sheer panic that your time is near, you start vomiting up absurd ideas under the guise of productive brainstorming.Ī Pigeons & Planes compilation always felt like one of those absurd ideas. That’s what happens when you come up in the blog era and realize that corporate interests, copyright laws, and shifts in technology can change everything at any given moment. The point is, we’ve thought about making a lot of things that never saw the light of day.
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And then, of course, there’s the video series idea we had called Pizza From Behind (I promise it’s not what it sounds like), but we won’t get into that today. If someone had been injured, there’s a chance P&P would not exist today. Another time we rented an Airbnb and decided to shoot music videos on the slightly questionable roof. Once we tried to set up an interview with Danny Brown while he was holding a sloth (he doesn’t know this), before learning that there are all kinds of legal guardrails when it comes to handling sloths in the state of New York. Throughout Pigeons & Planes’ history, we’ve had a lot of bad ideas.