Turns out Love’s Everywhere: Peter Dreams’ Debut Album out Today
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Peter Dreams welcomes his debut album today with a new video for “Arrivals,” a minimalist and expressive portrait that accompanies the song’s pensive, measured mode. The song, a key to the creative impulsion behind the project as a whole, is a meditation on both the fragility of life and the strength of will to live it. “Arrivals” captures a profound realization, as it occurs.
Watch “Arrivals” here
In the album’s gentlest moments - “Arrivals,” “Vigilant” and “Jesus & John” - Peter Dreams tenderly examines our most poignant and overwhelming moments, our hellos and goodbyes. Lullabies for all stages of life, these quieter selections reveal the softest underbelly of the self, warily walking the line between the chaos and groundedness of raw honesty.
Elsewhere on the album, Peter Dreams digs in with grittier cuts. From the singed scuttle of “Bad Habits,” a child of Mule Variations, to the stone cold catharsis of “Forget Yer Name,” out-of-body battles between bold swagger and self-awareness take place. Previously released “Come Save Me” and “Keep Me Free” joyride waves of pride and insecurity in equal measure.
“Unremarkable” and “Ecstasy Railings” glide and sway into memory spaces. From childhood homes to a teenage state of mind, these nostalgia-steeped backdrops create snapshots of blues and jeans and simpler times yet untouched by hindsight. In keeping with the album’s major theme of turning points, the songs inhabit the past before it played out.
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, Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR arrives today on Six Shooter Records.
Buy/stream Peter Dreams and MOONRIIVR here.
