Format Details:
Release Date: 29 March 2024
Label: Innovative Leisure
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 810874026811
Genres: Rock Alternative
Description
When Sean Cimino and Isom Innis were getting ready to work on what would become Acid Star, the full-length debut of their syrupy electronic rock group Peel, they started by tapping into the music that they liked as kids - That is, the music they gravitated toward before they had "any taste or judgment," as Innis puts it - The results are an album that swirls dance-music paint onto a rock canvas - Inspired in part by genre-bending Creation Records bands like Primal Scream and Madchester groups like Happy Mondays, Acid Star gives a modern spin on a classic formula.
"This new song ["Citizen X"] does vibrate with the weird aura of a live show; there's a sense of disorientation and detachment, and Cimino's vocals--which are reminiscent of Paul Banks' in Turn on the Bright Lights--are like a guiding light." FLOOD
"Melding gothic post-punk with psychedelic synth-pop, "Rom-Com" casts a long, dark shadow--their retro synthesizers and gloomy textures give it a compressed, chilling feel--but its energetic grooves bring the song to life." - Paste"
The song ["Citizen X"] itself began as a kind of shoegaze piece, with PEEL teasing out fresh elements while indulging their Cocteau Twins fetish." - Clash
Tracklisting
BADBADNOTGOOD
Allah-Las
Holy Fuck
Mapache
Sam Blasucci
Jonah Yano
Claude Fontaine
Maria Chiara Argiro
Oddly
The Lumineers
You Me At Six
Tom Waits
Artikal Sound System
Fake Palms
Charlie Reed
Bacchae
