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"Cruel Summer" is  first single from Songs for Peacock by TJO, out July 10, 2020 on Orindal Records.

Twenty-eight years into her kaleidoscopic discography, Songs for Peacock is the first album singer/guitarist/composer Tara Jane O’Neil has credited to just her initials: TJO. Recorded at home using primitive electronic instruments in addition to heavily effected electric guitar, bass & voice, Songs for Peacock is a collection of pop covers recalled from TJO’s youth, intended as a “mixtape” for her late brother Brian. Over twelve tracks & thirty-nine minutes, Songs for Peacock abstracts radio hits by the likes of Boy George, Bananarama, Leonard Cohen, Siouxsie and the Banshees & INXS, distilling earworms into thin wisps of dreamlike atmosphere, or stretching them into languorous psychedelic soundscapes. Songs for Peacock warps our collective musical memory to form a singular & cohesive body of work that defines TJO’s highly personal sonic landscape.

Tara Jane O’Neil explains:

This album is a mixtape, it is homage and it is distortion of sounds that were around in 1983, around the home I shared with my brother Brian. Some songs aren’t from that year; Yoko Ono came before but reached me much later, Leonard Cohen was not yet a fixture in my life in the way Duran Duran was. But I can render them like Bauhaus or Yazoo. The songs fit in this relation. In 1983 I was not yet a musician, or a critic, I was an older sister but also a younger sister, and I marveled at everything my older brothers brought in from outside the walled suburban experiment of Orange County, California. In 1983, pop star drag included some measure of cross-dressing or bedraggle, and I wanted to wear those wrestling boots and sailor hats, I wanted that unevenness and its celebration. In 1983, young girls with strawberry blonde locks would go with a jet black chop and send their mothers into desperate frenzies trying to get their beautiful daughters back. Sometimes they would come to my house looking like Siouxsie and smelling of tea rose, wearing the Wham! slogan “Choose Life” on their chests. I was too young for the early ’80s to be my teenage trial-and-error times, and so better I can remember them.

Songs for Peacock began in the fall of 2019 in the wake of the sudden death of Brian. This recording, with a borrowed drum machine and simple synthesizer, was exposure therapy and a healing mechanism.

Q: What does a person do to stop feeling blue when love disappears?
A: I recorded these songs. 

Brian sent me a mixtape a year after he moved out of the house. I only remember that Blondie, Aztec Camera and INXS were on it. I don’t know if he ever listened to Leonard Cohen or if he had an opinion about the song “Believe.” This mixtape I made is not a completist effort. It is a tribute to him who was, in 1983, the bee’s knees.

—TJO

Cruel Summer by TJO

Fit N Full

12th House Rock

Night Tryst

Money

Worry

Grounds

Spit You Out

All That Emotion

Dreams

Down at the So and So on Somewhere

Tunnel Vision

Stay at Home

Loser

Our dream shopping list at the local milk bar!

Hey I'm going to the shops, do you want anything?

I want a Bubble o' Bill
and a bag of Twisties
I want a Chiko Roll
and a 3-night rental

I want a Freddo Frog 
and a deep fried Mars Bar
I want a loaf of Tip Top
and 3 loose onions

I want a Passiona

I want a carton of milk
and a bag of mixed lollies
I want a Sunnyboy
and a Violet Crumble

I want a Frosty Fruit
or a Zooper Dooper
I want a pack of Fizz Whiz
and some Hubba Bubba

I want a Passiona

Written and performed by Kalindy Williams and Kurt Eckardt
Recorded by Kurt Eckardt
Artwork and photography by Kalindy Williams @ Orbit Arcade
Mixed and mastered by Mikey Young
Released as part of Leaps and Bounds Music Festival 2020 

Thank you to Mikey Young and City of Yarra

Milk Bar

Vivid Dreams is the final single from our debut EP Microcosmic Things coming out 10th July. Enjoy x

Vivid Dreams