Peter Dreams Shares “Forget Yer Name”
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Peter Dreams shares “Forget Yer Name” from forthcoming debut solo album, a collaboration with MOONRIIVR. The new album arrives February 14, 2025 ahead of Peter Dreams’ album release show at Toronto’s Axis Club on February 26.
On “Forget Yer Name,” whispered regret, cold as stone, sets this game of sonic misdirection in motion. Over soft-shoed tones of muted sax and mellotron, Peter Dreams’ vocals build towards an explosion, a force of nature blast from deep in the soul. Cleansing, cathartic and final, “Forget Yer Name” makes uneasy peace with release.
Listen to “Forget Yer Name” here - https://sixshooterrecords.lnk.to/ForgetYerName
Watch “Forget Yer Name” live performance with MOONRIIVR here:
For his debut solo album, Peter Dreams trades known quantities for new possibilities, opening a gateway to an alternate sonic reality. The sound of Peter Dreams (solo moniker of Peter Dreimanis from July Talk), in collaboration with MOONRIIVR, is post punk psychic cold plunge that recasts one of the most instantly recognizable voices in alternative rock. Mellow in tempo but undiluted in intensity, Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR travel on a slipstream of intuition, this is art made for its own reasons.
On the debut, Peter Dreams’ songs pour out, accessing deep level instinct of the not entirely conscious mind. Collective experience, a vantage of not needing to prove anything to anyone, and a window of opportunity coincide to bring forth a collection of symbolistic solo material that moves across a different soundscape.
Not so much unleashed as it is untangled, the songs on this debut originate in the back pockets of the psyche, set to MOONRIIVR’s decade-hopping concoctions. The lyrics resurface profound events of all sorts - brushes with death, life altering occurrences and other cataclysmic disturbances - the kinds of catastrophes and euphorias that don’t fit comfortably in the everyday front of the mind.
Equal parts inscrutable, vulnerable and dramatic, in its most introspective moments, Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR travels a similar emotional vein as albums like Skeleton Tree or Titanic Rising.
Peter Dreimanis makes his acting debut in Sinners, the forthcoming Ryan Coogler directed feature film due in April 2025. Watch the trailer here.
Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR arrives February 14, 2025.
About Peter Dreams
Peter Dreams is the new solo project of Peter Dreimanis, co-lead of the three-time JUNO Award winning alt rock band July Talk. An artful, instinct-led exploration, the songs of Peter Dreams are sourced in a dizzy mix of anticipation, hesitation and introspection that accompanies the future, as it arrives.
Peter Dreams first introduced his new project on stage, performing select shows with studio collaborators MOONRIIVR including M for Montreal, Block Heater with Tanya Tagaq and U.S. Girls, Hillside Festival and FME.
Dreimanis will appear in his first major film role in Ryan Coogler’s forthcoming project starring Michael B. Jordan, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, Omar Benson Miller, Lola Kirke and more. The film is slated for release on March 7, 2025.
