Peaer - A Healthy Earth

Peaer are now a tour-tested three-piece that have somehow gotten tighter and looser, the way bands do when it’s clear that they enjoy each other’s company. Katz’s guitar figures and vocals take counterintuitive steps towards dissonant note clusters before righting themselves into delightful sing-song melodies, replicating the effect of those bizarre ice creams that have sriracha or mustard in them. Two members of Peaer make their living as recording engineers, and if A Healthy Earth is any indication, they’ve been studying Steve Albini’s every mic placement with monastic intensity. Earth has such an extreme dynamic range that it sounds almost wrong compared to others in its realm. During the times when the album is quiet, it’s as unnerving and tense as anything on the Midsommar soundtrack. When it eventually gets loud—and Peaer rock more convincingly and nastily than just about any band lumped into slowcore—its lean arrangements hit with more unexpected force than any post-rock or metal crescendo. This is the kind of visceral wish fulfillment Peaer specialize in on A Healthy Earth—it acknowledges how much of our lives are spent waiting in line to manage our agony when just giving it a voice might be the only way to get relief.

- Pitchfork

Peter Katz - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Jeremy Kinney - Drums
Thom Lombardi - Bass, Vocals
Alex Saraceno - Keyboards
Josh Kinney - Clarinet (Bass), Saxophone
Lucie Murphy - Vocals
Shamir Bailey - Vocals

Jeremy Kinney - Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Production
Dave Eck - Mastering

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