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Pre-order 'The Leather Lemon' here - https://p.e.wharfcatrecords.com/leather-lemon

About The Leather Lemon by P.E.

P.E. 's sophomore album, The Leather Lemon (Wharf Cat Records, out March 25, 2022), ushers in a new era for the New York band. A wild ride through chewy bubblegum pop, sweeping synthetic orchestrations, and mutant club beats, the album slides ever closer to the fully-realized pop sensibility only winked at with their debut album Person (2020) and subsequent releases. 

Digging into mystery, romance, and sex appeal with The Leather Lemon, the group — composed of members of Pill (Mexican Summer) and Eaters (Dull Tools) — centers its sound within a Bermuda Triangle of dance music, electronic composition, and experimental rock. Members Jonathan Schenke, Bob Jones, and Jonny Campolo play  within pop parameters, building upon free-form collaboration to create a fluorescent groove machine that harnesses the energy of their frenetic live shows. Singer Veronica Torres explores her softer side, expanding her vocal repertoire from spoken word and jagged growls to cherubic and sensuous psalms. Sax virtuoso Benjamin Jaffe’s chiseled experimental tone is heard in an extended solo of true romance in “Tears in the Rain,” a somber surrealist duet penned by Torres and Andrew Savage, singer/guitarist of Parquet Courts. 

Recorded primarily at Schenke’s Studio Windows in Brooklyn, NY, The Leather Lemon was cultivated from a fertile creative period between spring 2020 and summer 2021, which also yielded 2021’s acclaimed The Reason For My Love EP. Pitchfork writes: 
	
	The quintet refines their impulses on their 2020 debut Person and transforms them into a body-moving EP. The jittery electronics are still there, but the drum cuts feel sharper and lighter, bringing a sense of structure to what could easily be shapeless. Vocalist Veronica Torres abandons spoken-word and leans fully into singing about poetry, beauty, and the contours of the body. Her lovely vocal stretches fill up the space once occupied by industrial bass drops. Sensuality suits them well.

The Leather Lemon is a reckoning record for the times; an album of psychedelic resurfacing, real-time response to world events, and soft, sympathetic magic. This is a collection of songs shaped by five individuals who embrace music-making as a way to center themselves in times of uncertainty; it’s resilience and imagination given shape. The Leather Lemon is a true sweet-and-sour listening experience, an album as bright and clear as it is fractured and fun. Get turned UP and ON with the electrifying new lemon drop from P.E.! 

P.E. is: Jonny Campolo (piano, synths, bass, percussion, voice), Benjamin Jaffe (saxophone, synths, voice), Bob Jones (beats, samples, synths, bass, voice), Jonathan Schenke (synths, beats, bass, percussion, voice), Veronica Torres (voice, lyrics). 

Produced, Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Jonathan Schenke at Studio Windows. Additional production by Bob Jones at Zo City Studios. Written in-person and in-quarantine by P.E. between Studio Windows (NY), Zo City Studios (NY), and Gray House MPLS (MN) 2020-2021.

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P.E. - Tears In The Rain (from the album 'The Leather Lemon' out now!)

Reminiscing

First Light

Dissociation

From the upcoming album 'HannaH,' out October 29 via Park The Van.
More info: https://www.parkthevan.com/label/the-high-strung

I don’t think I’ll ever get to know her
But we spent some time one summer back
It was a beautiful summer where nobody’s watched over
By the fallen angels climbing their way back
And nothing comes to mind
If I think of any kind words we had
Or good times from bad
Who can tell?
Listen now, I mean it when I tell you
The girl, she had a mind all her own
Like when she asked me once “Are you good at keeping secrets?
Cause if you tell you’ll live a thousand years alone.”
Well, nothing comes to mind
If I hear any mention of her name
It hits me just the same
If I don’t
The sun was like a giant, sick and kneeling
The river was all mixed up with his sweat
The grass was sweet and calming in the open air
Cause the autumn wind hadn’t got there yet
But nothing comes to mind
No, it’s no good
It makes me sad
Like I knew it would

"Beautiful Summer" by The High Strung

The 'anthemic' track odes to the distress that follows 'mixed-signals' within 'love' and relationships. Captured through the passionate, angsty instrumentals and moody vocals of the quintet.

Hush Puppy’s debut single, “Too Cold” – recorded/mixed by Dave Parkin out of, BlackBird Sound Studio. With mastering by Brian Lucey of, Magic Garden Mastering.

Too Cold

I Am The Mud

It's Like a Dream - Single

It's Like a Dream

Pre-order:
https://private-agenda.bandcamp.com/album/neo-nostalgia

Neo-Nostalgia, out on 27 August 2021, is the first alluring glimpse of Private Agenda’s forthcoming sophomore album: A Mannequin. A Mannequin will be released on Lo Recordings on 22 October 2021 via digital platforms and limited-edition LP. 

Neo-Nostalgia is time-travelling in musical form. A warm electronic pop exposition in the vein of Toro y Moi and Bullion, it’s a throwback to the future. 

A compelling first glimpse of their latest body of work entitled A Mannequin, lead single Neo-Nostalgia blends the forward-thinking electronica of Jessy Lanza and Yves Tumor, along with the soft, soulful pop of Babeheaven and Erika de Casier.

A Mannequin

Neo-nostalgia

Every Day Is a Sunday b/w Slow Motion Feel

7"/Digital

El Ten Eleven, Kishi Bashi - Every Day Is a Sunday

From the TONN Anniversary Album, 'Intersection IV' available now on TONN Recordings Bandcamp.

 'Below Zero' is produced in collaboration with Fledermaus. 

Mastered by Thanos Mylonas.

Image © Crystalline Stricture.

Intersection IV

Below Zero

Below Zero - LoveTheMachine feat. FOKKER

The Robins Sang

A Place to Bury Strangers dive headfirst into suffering on the dark and explosive “I’m Hurt,” the third single from the upcoming See Through You LP. Stark electronic kick drums and mangled guitars serge over a tense bassline that pulses throughout this anguished industrial dirge. Ackermann lays his bones out bare and invites us all to come to inspect the wounds. “I’m Hurt” is an anthem to the malnourished and disenfranchised children of rock n roll whose hurt is in need of healing.   

“I’m Hurt” is out January 18, 2022. See Through You LP to follow on February 4, 2022—only on Dedstrange.

See Through You

I'm Hurt

A Place To Bury Strangers - I'm Hurt

Hot Desire

Post Ironic Internet Haze

Playing The Part is written about how I always try to give people the benefit of the doubt and come up with reasons for why they are being bad people. I guess I should learn to notice the signs earlier. Bad people keep on doing bad things. Always best to read the signs as they come about and address the issues when they arise rather than sweep them under the rug and hope they are something that they aren’t.

I Am The Mud

Cheap Teeth

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