Dublin’s Pillow Queens tackles topics like religion, sexuality and anxiety with precision indie rock songwriting that builds into swelling, cathartic choruses. While they certainly have their raucous and rowdy moments, the emotional core of the songs leaves the most sting.

This session comes from KEXP’s 2019 Iceland Airwaves broadcast from Kex Hostel.

Recorded 11/09/2019.
How Do I Look
Brothers
Rats
Child of Prague
Gay Girls
Liffey

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Dublin&rsquo;s Pillow Queens tackles topics like religion, sexuality and anxiety with precision indie rock songwriting that builds into swelling, cathartic choruses. While they certainly have their raucous and rowdy moments, the emotional core of the songs leaves the most sting.
This session comes from KEXP&rsquo;s 2019 Iceland Airwaves broadcast from Kex Hostel.
Recorded 11/09/2019.
<ol>
<li>How Do I Look</li>
<li>Brothers</li>
<li>Rats</li>
<li>Child of Prague</li>
<li>Gay Girls</li>
<li>Liffey</li>
</ol>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhINlOM1pbY">Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTube</a>

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Pillow Queens

On the show this time, Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul slap some bass and get downright funky. 

Cultural appropriation and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte and Bolis have ripped up the rulebook with their debut record. All four songs from this set come from the album, which came out earlier this year on Deewee Records. It’s called “Topical Dancer”—and that’s not a typo. The album is as danceable as it is topical. KEXP DJ Larry Mizell Jr. put it this way: Adigery and Pupul “deal with colonialism and race with unsparing wit.
Blenda
Making Sense Stop
Haha
Ceci n’est pas un cliché

Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTube.

On the show this time, Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul slap some bass and get downright funky.&nbsp;
Cultural appropriation and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you&rsquo;d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte and Bolis have ripped up the rulebook with their debut record. All four songs from this set come from the album, which came out earlier this year on Deewee Records. It&rsquo;s called &ldquo;Topical Dancer&rdquo;&mdash;and that&rsquo;s not a typo. The album is as danceable as it is topical. KEXP DJ Larry Mizell Jr. put it this way: Adigery and Pupul &ldquo;deal with colonialism and race with unsparing wit.
<ol>
<li>Blenda</li>
<li>Making Sense Stop</li>
<li>Haha</li>
<li>Ceci n&rsquo;est pas un clich&eacute;</li>
</ol>
Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTube.

Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul [Performance & Interview Only] (RE-RELEASE)

Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul (RE-RELEASE)

On the show this time, we replay our vaguely holiday-themed traditional episode - the dual-drum druid jazz of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. The Melbourne, Australia based psych-rockers released five albums in 2017, and played at the KEXP studios in support of the releases: “Polygondwanaland” and “Gumboot Soup."
Crumbling Castle
The Fourth Colour
Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet
The Castle In the Air
Muddy Water
The Wheel

Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTube.

On the show this time, we replay our vaguely holiday-themed traditional episode - the dual-drum druid jazz of King Gizzard &amp; The Lizard Wizard. The Melbourne, Australia based psych-rockers released five albums in 2017, and played at the KEXP studios in support of the releases: &ldquo;Polygondwanaland&rdquo; and &ldquo;Gumboot Soup."
<ol>
<li>Crumbling Castle</li>
<li>The Fourth Colour</li>
<li>Deserted Dunes Welcome Weary Feet</li>
<li>The Castle In the Air</li>
<li>Muddy Water</li>
<li>The Wheel</li>
</ol>
Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTube.

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