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Someone Else For You

Time Will Tell

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

Agitprop Alterna

Agitprop Altern

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LYRICS

Pastel shades in the early heat of May
But all I see is grey
Monochrome scenes feels like it’s all through a screen
But who am I to say what’s real

Is something wrong with me?
Rings like a silent scream 
My sadness is compiling
It’s summer and I don’t feel like smiling

The long days shouldn’t feel this bleak
But it feels like I’m on a losing streak
The smell of suncream and salty air
I feel nothing and I don’t care

Is something wrong with me?
Rings like a silent scream
My sadness is compiling 
It’s summer and I don’t feel like smiling

Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 
Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 
Air con and blackout blinds
I never mean to be unkind 

The long days shouldn’t feel this bleak
But it feels like I’m on a losing streak

There's A Ghost

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