Pigment Vehicle

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Origin: Sidney, British Columbia, 🇨🇦
Biography:

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 Victorians Nomeansno, playing in a similarly noisy, sometimes goofy, and sometimes mathy style of post-hardcore/post-punk/punk. If Nomeansno’s works like “Sex Mad” (1986), “Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed” (1988), and “Wrong” (1989) 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 1988 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.

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”.

“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.