Sweet Billy Pilgrim
We Just Did What Happened And No..
Somewhere between the earthy and the ethereal, Sweet Billy Pilgrim scrape strings and tap away at laptops trying to make beautiful things. Their second single, 'Stars Spill Out of Cups' recently appeared amongst the Sunday Times' forty or so 'Best Songs of the Year,' which made them very happy. Response to their freely available mp3s has been nothing short of staggering, the most recent - the internet-only available 'Forget to Breathe' - amassing over 3000 downloads in 3 weeks. They've also turned careful hands to remixing, most notably 'bringing a fierce pop quality' to David Sylvian's 'The Heart Knows Better' for his recent 'The Good Son vs. the Only Daughter - The Blemish Remixes' project, and turning in a version of Steve Adey's 'Mississippi' for a forthcoming iTunes release. Their debut album is "we just did what happened and no one came" a collection of songs recorded in a warm shed where hope floats and faith taps at the door, sometimes a little too quietly to hear. Mojo magazine awarded it 4 stars and included a song on a recent cover-mounted CD, while the Sunday Times called it, "a rather special debut.". They say it's time someone made a dignified record. In D minor. So that's what they did, and below are the thoughts of some of those who came along when it happened.