Peaer, the New York slowcore trio began by bandleader Peter Katz in 2014, have introduced their first new album in almost seven years. Doppelgänger is out January 16 by way of Danger Collective. Their fourth LP is led by the only “Button.” Give that new music a hear beneath.
Katz wrote “Button” after starting a full-time workplace job in 2023 that shifted his perspective on his id. “It grew right into a music about small moments and their impression on the course of your life,” he defined. “There are many questions within the lyrics, rather a lot coping with the thought of: You needed this, didn’t you? What do you do now that you’ve it? Is it what you anticipated? There’s additionally a second of humility in direction of the top, with the acknowledgement that even when we don’t essentially wish to ‘work’ there’s a energy in being part of one thing bigger than your self.”
Doppelgänger follows Peaer’s 2019 album, A Healthy Earth. Within the years since then, Peaer by no means stopped engaged on new music, regardless of their 2020 tour plans being derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their new full-length collects songs from the band’s complete profession, with some concepts courting again to 2015. It additionally contains “Just Because,” a observe Peaer launched final yr.
Examine Peaer’s A Wholesome Earth in Pitchfork’s “The Best Rock Albums of 2019.”
