Why We Fly

Imagine for a moment that XTC became the backing band for David Bowie. No, wait -- let's say that members of Yes and Genesis decided to get together and re-learn the entire Dave Matthews Band catalog. Or, better yet, what if Robert Fripp had been kidnapped by Jason Falkner and Joe Jackson, who then decided to lead King Crimson on a pop-rock crusade? These, and many other musical ponderables, can now be answered by Why We Fly, the debut album from California's own Pidgin English. Occasionally complex, often straight-forward but never the same thing twice, Why We Fly brings together a venerable kitchen sink's worth of musical influences; toeing the line between English progressive rock and American pop, creating a sound that sits well in this time, or any other.