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Album Review: Co-Pilgrim - Plumes

Brendan Telford

"Harmonious, ruminative and loved"



After the hesitant musings of loss and change on 2013's A Fairer Sea, Co-Pilgrim have “come of age” on Plumes, the new record more concerned with finding the strength to carry on. There are many touchstones littered throughout – Australian stalwarts the Go-Betweens, Art of Fighting and The Panics in the unhurried, sonorous nature of the instrumentation; even heavyweights like Fleetwood Mac (I Saw You Heavenly Girl), Bob Dylan and Dexys Midnight Runners (I Know Love) cast their shadow. But rather than being a pastiche or homogenisation, Plumes feels like the first true Co-Pilgrim record – harmonious, ruminative and loved.