JUNE 2022 PART IV

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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!)

https://open.spotify.com/track/1XOyQrPlCXXRvqMhwrng9P?si=8d24ef29f9044848

Download for free: https://greathare.bandcamp.com/track/archipelago-of-dreams

Archipelago Of Dreams

LYRICS:

The cracked foundations showed
After they pressured washed the patio
The gin and tonics flowed
60:40 was the ratio
She was once again scarred
After he brought the second Jaguar
Not real but probably
Happening somewhere in the Home Counties
The Home Counties

As the sun is going down in a Middle English town
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town

The cracked foundations grow
After they’re forced to sell the second home (oh no!)
They know the neighbours know
If they say walls can talk then so can gnomes
They fired the gardening staff
And followed tips read in The Telegraph
Not real but honestly
This shit is normal in the Home Counties
The Home Counties

As the sun is going down in a Middle English town
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town (In a Middle English town)
As the sun is going down in a Middle English!

As the sun is going down in a Middle English town (The Home Counties)
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town (The Home Counties)
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town (The Home Counties)
As the sun is going down in a Middle English

As the sun is going down in a Middle English town
As the sun is going down in a Middle English town

The Home Counties

Yndling

Like Love Is Real (Radio Edit)

Maelstrom

Circular

Tides

Dr Pong is available to stream now: https://orcd.co/ybv6ajk

SOUVENIRS

Dr Pong

Pale Blue Eyes - Dr Pong

Porridge Radio - Back To The Radio

As well as the previous one, i wasn't able to finish this track as my apartment was burglarised on October 2020.
Around July 2020, i've randomly sent some music to a dear friend of mine: Simon Heah, because he wanted to hear it.
Here is what's left, as well as other lo-fi recordings that i will only share on Soundcloud.
The thieves stole my musical equipment, my computer and the usbs where i kept the projects at the time, gladly i was able to send some audio files to Simon.
There is no reason for me to holding on to it, so here it is...

This Unreleased Track was recorded mainly around April of 2020, in my home studio.

You can now buy digitally "Unreleased (2018-2020) Vol. I", which is the album where this track is featured, by simply following this link : https://tinyurl.com/yck4mnaa

Lament (Unreleased Track)

Joe T. Johnson is back with is spectacular new single 'Twist' available everywhere now! - Recorded over a couple of wildly productive days, produced by Lewis Bradshaw and mastered by Pete Maher (Patti Smith, Jack White, Rolling Stones, Liam Gallagher) 'Twist' was recorded taking a DIY, vintage organic approach which complements Joe's creative process

Twist

As well as the previous one, i wasn't able to finish this track as my apartment was burglarised on October 2020.
Around July 2020, i've randomly sent some music to a dear friend of mine: Simon Heah, because he wanted to hear it.
Here is what's left, as well as other lo-fi recordings that i will only share on Soundcloud.
The thieves stole my musical equipment, my computer and the usbs where i kept the projects at the time, gladly i was able to send some audio files to Simon.
There is no reason for me to holding on to it, so here it is...

Sprinkle was recorded mainly around March of 2020, in my home studio.

Sprinkle (Unreleased Track)

La Musique

Do Your Worst

Cracker Island (feat. Thundercat)

HOLY SHIP - Beyond Frames

Walking down the high street past chuggers imploring
So many worthy causes I shouldn’t be ignoring
Everyone seems to want a donation from me
With heart rending stories to persuade me to give to charity 

Images of suffering, Images of strife
Is it too much for everyone to have a safe, secure life
Charity may alleviate some immediate misery
But the problems are created and sustained by too much inequality 

So I’ll give you my coin if you think it will help
And I’m sure in a small way it will
But the reason for a lot of pain in this world
Is that too much inequality can kill

While some suffer and starve their way through miserable days
A few can spend and spend and have what they please
Then salve any qualms they may have that could shatter their lies
By finding photogenic ways to philanthropise

A few pounds given to charity, won’t even begin to tackle poverty
Although the adverts are purpose built, to tug at the heartstrings and target guilt
The solution that comes from charity makes it easier to accept inequality
And how many wealthy people would pay the price
To rebalance wealth so everyone gets a fair slice
Pay enough to give people dignity
Not make them dependant on charity

Lock yourself behind walls in you mind and uniformed guards
Turn away from the others for whom everything is so hard
Repeat the mantra that there’s no money tree
Then wait for the applause as you give a small percentage to charity

Charity

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HOLY SHIP - Beyond Frames

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