Pigeon Pit releases surprise new album Leash Aggression

Pigeon Pit releases surprise new album Leash Aggression today on
Ernest Jenning Record Co.

November & December Tour Dates Announced

Stream: Leash Aggression on Bandcamp or All Digital Platforms

Watch: "Rearview Mirror Blues" live video on YouTube

Acclaimed Olympia, WA country/punk maximalists Pigeon Pit have surprise-released their new album Leash Aggression today on Ernest Jenning Record Co. (order). The band is also sharing a live video of "Rearview Miror Blues" from the new release which is now streaming on YouTube.

To celebrate the release, the band will perform headline shows and support June Henry and Holy Locust on select dates. The tour will include stops in Portland, Vancouver, Seattle, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans and more. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.

Pigeon Pit is the self-described “maximalist journaling” project of Olympia frontwoman Lomes Oleander, whose scrapbook approach to songwriting pieces together vivid vignettes of self-acceptance and survival. Her lyrics trace a life lived across the anarchic punk scene of surf-town Santa Cruz, chemical escapism in Seattle basements, cross-country freight train rides through queer counterculture, and even time spent teaching kindergarten.
After a debilitating injury in 2020, Oleander expanded Pigeon Pit into a full band featuring violin and pedal steel on Feather River Canyon Blues, channeling psychedelic country and DIY pop-punk influences that recall Gram Parsons, The Weakerthans, and P.S. Eliot. With songs that explore queerness, grief, attachment, and political struggle, Pigeon Pit has maintained a fierce DIY ethos, packing punk house basements and generator shows while also performing on NPR’s Tiny Desk and touring with Laura Jane Grace and AJJ.
Leash Aggression marks Pigeon Pit’s second full-length release of 2025, following Crazy Arms, which blended field recordings, laughter, and layered instrumentation into a dense emotional collage. By contrast, Leash Aggression embraces a raw, stripped-down sound that lets the songs speak for themselves, showcasing the band’s evolution as a live unit. It’s also their most explicitly political work to date, an immersive exercise in world-building where possibility outweighs despair.
As Oleander puts it, the album proposes “love for humanity, rather than fear of certain futures, as a political motivator,” and sees “hope as an invitation to act in the face of bleakness, instead of something made impossible by it.”
There’s no slow build-up this time, Leash Aggression is out everywhere now via Ernest Jenning Record Co.

Pigeon Pit Tour Dates:

November 13 - Eugene, OR @ Ghost Town Outfitters *
November 14 - Portland, OR @ Twilight Lounge *
November 15 - Olympia, WA @ Mortuary *
November 16 - Bremerton, WA @ The Charleston *
November 18 - Port Townsend, WA @ Community Print Shop *
November 19 - Bellingham, WA @ TBA
November 20 - Vancouver, BC @ Green Auto *
November 21 - Seattle, WA @ Vera Project *
November 22 - Corvallis, OR @ Bombs Away Cafe *
November 25 - Berkeley, CA @ 924 Gilman #
November 26 - Los Angeles, CA @ Sardine #
November 29 - Tuscon, AZ @ Groundworks
November 30 - El Paso, TX at TBA #
December 2 - Austin, TX @ Empire Control Room #
December 3 - Houston, TX @ The End #
December 4 - Baton Rouge, LA @ Wonderground %
December 5 - New Orleans, LA @ The Broadside #
December 7 - Pensacola, FL @ 309 #
December 8 - Gainesville, FL @ Big Dog’s Gas Farm #
December 9 - Orlando, FL @ Will's Pub #
December 11 - Miami, FL @ Houndstooth Cottage #
December 12 - Jacksonville, FL @ The Walrus #
December 14 - Atlanta, GA @ Wallers Coffee #

* with Holy Locust
# with June Henry
% with June Henry, Holy Locust, Nana Grizol