Pigeon Pit TTakes Flight With Crazy Arms – A Chaotic, Beautiful Call to Humanity

From Olympia, WA, where rain-soaked streets give way to fiery passion, Pigeon Pit returns with Crazy Arms, their fourth LP, from the rambunctious DIY Folk anarchists and first since becoming a nationally touring six-piece. This record is more than an album—it’s a testament to the wild, tangled beauty of human existence. The band spent 2024 with recent tours dates with AJJ, Laura Jane Grace
and starting 2025 touring with Foot Ox next month (dates below)

Imagine The Weakerthans sharing a stage with CRASS, a night at the Ryman Auditorium on slow-burn psychedelics, or the dreams you dare

to speak aloud at dawn. That’s Crazy Arms. It’s the sound of a band not just finding their stride, but reveling in the chaos. With a gritty tenderness, they let you know that no matter how fractured the world seems, you’re never truly alone.

Lyrically, the album cuts deep, as evidenced in lines like, “The terror breathes beside me: another little act of sabotage” from Run Your Pockets. Frontwoman Lomes Oleander pulls no punches when she describes the album as “last call for nuance before we all get put against the wall.”

Her perspective is raw and unflinching:
“We’re all fucked up and crazy people. Let’s get wild with it and love our humanity while we can—our contradictions, our flaws, the things that make us real. These are love songs for how messed up we are and how beautiful it is that we try anyway. When you see genocide unfolding on your phone, fascism and AI swallowing reality, and you force yourself not to respond to the humanity inside you—that’s what kills the human spirit. Giving a shit is the unpopular opinion. I’m just writing about what it feels like for me to hang on in a world that’s trying to kill the human spirit.”

Recording Crazy Arms was as organic as the emotions it captures. Laid down on analog tape in a basement studio with live tracks, the process was more a labor of love than a polished production. A piano, dragged through town and wedged into a basement, became both an instrument and a metaphor for the album’s raw spirit. Oleander calls it “more country, more pop punk, more experimental, more of everything.”

Pigeon Pit’s journey from scrappy beginnings to international tours and a Tiny Desk performance has been nothing short of meteoric. Oleander reflects on these experiences with bittersweet clarity: “I’m stumbling around the country, getting devastated by the immensity of love and humanity as it all falls apart, and writing all this new stuff.”

Crazy Arms is a melodic revolution, a raw diary of survival, and an ode to the human spirit. It’s messy, beautiful, and full of heart—a must-listen for those who seek solace in both the noise and the quiet.

Catch Pigeon Pit at the end of the month on the westcoast

01.24 – Olympia, WA @ Capitol Theatre (record release show)
02.27 – Seattle, WA @ Vera Project *
02.28 – Eugene, OR @ House Show *
03.01 – Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman Street *
03.02 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Atrium at The Catalyst *
03.03 – Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge (early show) *
03.05 – Phoenix, AZ @ Last Exit Live *
03.07 – Sacramento, CA @ Starlet Room at Harlow’s *
03.08 – Arcata, CA @ House Show *
03.09 – Portland, OR @ Mission Theater *
* with Foot Ox