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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!)

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Lazy Eyes and Dune

Cola's debut single out now on Fire Talk. 

Follow / Buy: https://ffm.to/colaband

Blank Curtain

Cola - Blank Curtain

For self release on 16th February 2022. Currently being used on Film 4's 'Films at 9' trailer (UK Television).

Written by James Leonard Hewitson, performed by James Leonard Hewitson and Michael Kitching (Drums, Percussion)with Josh Ingledew (additional synth).

Produced by Chris McManus, Blank Studios, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.

A song exploring the low key madness of emotional unavailability, in the hope to make it all a little less frightening.

Stable

Of the sun

Written and performed by Gag Salon.
Recorded and produced by Chris McCrory at Green Door Studio, Glasgow.
Mastered by Sam Smith.

Joseph Mumford - vocals / guitar
Tom Dimmock - backing vocals / guitar / synth
Seb Bowden - bass
Ayden Spiller - drums / percussion

Horses

A Spoonful Of Sugar

Live in Seattle

Bury Me in My Shoes - Live in Seattle

T. G. Shand - WAWO

GoodLuckCharm [redux]

Wouldn't Even Know is written by Annelotte De Graaf
Produced, recorded and mixed by Ben Greenberg
Additional vocals by Bill Ryder Jones

Guitars by Manuel van den Berg
Bass by Ronald Straetemans
Drums by Jaap Bontekoe
Synths and keys by Ella van der Woude

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman

www.amberarcades.net
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Wouldn't Even Know (feat. Bill Ryder Jones)

"Pink Skies", Mountain Movers' seventh studio album finds the New Haven group diving further into an interstellar wormhole, guiding the listener through an enchanting labyrinth of squalling feedback, heady P.S.F.-influenced psychedelia, motorik rhythms, and mind-flaying guitar interplay. ~ OUT OCT 5th, 2018 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Mountain Movers "This City"

From their second album "Living Theatre", out May 17th, 2019 via Trouble In Mind Records (www.troubleinmindrecs.com)

Olden Yolk "Cotton & Cane" (Trouble In Mind Records)

From the many musical lives of artist Glenn Donaldson emerges The Reds, Pinks and Purples, a project that sifts out the purest elements of pop music and in the process chronicles the point of view of an assiduous songwriter. His new album "Uncommon Weather" is both an elusive portrait of San Francisco -- during one of its fluctuations as an untenable place for musicians and artists -- and also a self-portrait of a songwriter who has dispatched another treasured collection of timeless sounding DIY-pop songs. Self-recorded and mostly self-performed, the music on "Uncommon Weather" continuously reckons with the influence of The Television Personalities' Dan Treacy, as well as The Cleaners From Venus, Blueboy, East River Pipe, and the Cherry Red and Flying Nun labels. Beautiful, mysterious and rather perfect pop.

Uncommon Weather

The Reds, Pinks & Purples - The Biggest Fan

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

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