Pigment Vehicle were a very early math rock band
from Victoria, B.C.
Information on this band, and recordings of their music, are scarce; see
Fecking Bahamas’ coverage (archived) and the Live
Victoria thread linked therein (archived). They are
associated with fellow
VictoriansNomeansno,
playing in a similarly noisy, sometimes goofy, and
sometimes mathy style of post-hardcore/post-punk/punk. If
Nomeansno’s works like “Sex Mad” (), “Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed” (),
and “Wrong” () were proto-math rock, then the works of their apprentice, Pigment
Vehicle, were arguably early artifacts of math rock
proper.
“Hockey Night in Saskatoon”, the band’s
cassette demo, is arguably already mathy enough to count as
a full-blown math rock album, which would make them a very
early entry into the math rock canon. For math rock fans, their first fully-formed effort in this
respect is probably “Perfect Cop Mustache”. “Murder's Only
Foreplay When You're Hot For Revenge” is similarly essential and perhaps
their “best-known” record, although this distinction may not be
meaningful, since whatever small influence Pigment Vehicle may have had,
it unfortunately did not stay with time.
notes on the distributions
Pigment Vehicle’s contribution to “It Came From
Victoria” is the 3rd track on the record overall. The same
Pigment Vehicle recording also shows up on “Perfect Cop
Mustache”, but in the distributions here, they are compressed
differently, so both are included.
“Murder's Only Foreplay When You're Hot For Revenge” lists a
thirteenth track (“Boeuf Mon Amour”), but there are reportedly only
twelve tracks on the original CD.
Pigment Vehicle discography
title
Hockey Night in Saskatoon
Let the Squids Fly Free
[V/A] It Came From Victoria
Perfect Cop Mustache
Independent Women Are So Damned Good
Murder's Only Foreplay When You're Hot For Revenge
cover art
year
???
tracklist
1
Three Parts
2
Let It Go
3
Metamorphosis
4
I'm an Alligator
5
Look Up and Live
6
Ivan F.
7
Kitty
8
It's Nothing in Particular
9
Your Car Door Is Open
total duration
1
Savin My Cash for a Hog
2
This Is for Your Eyes Only That's for Sure
3
I Am
4
Cheese Omelettes
5
Perogies for Everyone
6
Torpedo Sandwich
7
Bikini Underwear
8
Hi Fish
9
Oedipus Complexus (For Pick-Up)
10
Smoking a Small Piece of Your Brain Made From Your Loves Ball and Socket
