3AM Doomscroll

Shade

Kelso (Blue sky)

Shorty b/w Saving Daylight

Shorty

Mimi

Mon Argent

Pottery

A declaration of unity and higher purpose.
This track carries the weight of something ancient, but looks forward - toward a future we can still shape. Through bold vocals and a sense of rising intensity, it calls for a return to something pure, something willed from beyond, but made real by our hands.

It speaks of responsibility, of building a new Eden not from fantasy, but from awareness. A legacy not written in stone, but carried in the soil, in the voice, in the will to rise beyond division.

We are not separate. We are not alone.
We are one.

Legacy

Legacy Transcendental

When I See the Sun

Loss Leader (Peel Session)

Seasons of Your Day

I’ve Gotta Stop

Broken Girl

August 10

The Agent Intellect

Feast of Stephen

Lies

Freedom

Calling Paul the Suffering

Peel Dream Magazine is the nom de plume of New York City-based musician Joe Stevens. A nod to BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel, arbiter of all things underground, Peel Dream Magazine is highly evocative of a certain strain of independent music. Stevens harkens back to the early 1990s, when The Velvet Underground resurged as an inspiration to a new set of bands wielding synthesizers, off-set guitars, and a political bent. The Peel Dream experience is defined by a gentle, fuzzy psychedelia —it’s a hypnotic bit of mod-ish lo-fi pop, recalling the best of early Stereolab, Lilys, and other shaggy haired kids with vintage fuzz pedals, slim trousers, and good record collections.

Written and recorded over a four-week period in the fall of 2017, Peel Dream Magazine’s debut album "Modern Meta Physic" fixates on the New Age universe of the Catskills region of New York. Stevens deals in esoteric bohemian fare — Far East philosophy, Native American tradition, mid-century modern cool — as he appraises the world according to privileged urban expats who increasingly call the upstate paradise home.

Leading off the album, "Qi Velocity" is a metronomic take on French pop that yields to a lush chorus reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian. “Deetjen's," named after the much-loved bed & breakfast in Big Sur, would fit snugly on Unrest's best Teen Beat material. "Due to Advances in Modern Tourism" displays a soft take on Neu!, while the organ that enters could be a sly wink to Steve Reich's "Four Organs.”

There is an economy to these tracks — everything is distilled down to it’s essential elements, no gestures are wasted, no superfluous ornamentation taking up space. While Stevens is more than happy to show his influences on his sleeve — mind you, they're great influences — it's clear Peel Dream Magazine isn't just a “sound." The guy can write songs. Where he goes next is anybody's guess.

Modern Meta Physic

Peel Dream Magazine - Shenandoah

Twinlights

Golden-Vein (EP Version)

"website for the album (pixel art landscape) 
palmtre.es 
thanks to tom auty for the website, warren hildebrand for the tapes, and matt adler for the help with the whole project 

everything recorded by me this summer directly w/ my cassette player and my toy instruments"

download the album and support the artist: https://rickyeatacid.bandcamp.com/album/seeing-little-ghosts-everywhere

seeing little ghosts everywhere

falling forever and ever

Fire Of Love

Fire Spirit

Kelso (Blue sky)

Grouper

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