Watch the video for "Wish You Well"
Rose Main Reading Room is out via Topshelf Records on September 4th, 2024 (digital, vinyl, cassette) -- On tour with Wild Nothing in August & playing Desert Daze in Oct.
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"Compared to the primarily virtual instruments of Pad, here Stevens took his home recordings and went around to various studios, where he had various other humans play. It results in a fuller, lusher sound that, in the end, makes Rose Main Reading Room feel more like a new destination built on a synthesis of everywhere Peel Dream has been."
-Stereogum
July 24th, 2024 — Rose Main Reading Room, the fourth full length by Peel Dream Magazine, is a lush, inviting headphones record; the kind of album made to accompany city bus rides and rainy-day solo trips to accidental destinations. The band, whose name nods to the BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel -- arbiter of all things underground, quality, and (it must be said) "cool" -- has since its inception been a genre-hopping experiment, jumping from motorik krautrock to shoegaze and space ago pop, and their newest work is a perfect starting point for the uninitiated, beckoning toward a newfound romance and nostalgia with their catchiest collection of songs to date.
Set to the backdrop of New York City and its towering landmarks -- The American Museum of Natural History, Grand Central Station, and the like -- songwriter Joseph Stevens weaves personal stories into the wider fabric of the natural world, touching on themes of instinct, animality, and evolution. On their latest single "Wish You Well", the band leans into its pop rock sensibilities with a lingering feeling of catharsis hanging above.
Of the song and the video, Peel Dream Magazine's Joe Stevens writes:
"Wish You Well" is a song about the animality that we are all hardwird with, and how it can bring out the worst in us. Instinct drives some people to be ruthlessly competitive, Rose Main Reading Room deals a lot with this juncture of the civilized and natural world. I wrote this song as a statement, like, freeing myself from the influence of people who've pushed me around at different points in my life. In the music video, Olivia and I are portraying people who secretly try to undermine others. Everyone's behavior is juxtaposed with these brutally violent scenes from nature, as well as all of this DNA and celluar imagery to establish this idea that its completely elemental. We shot this video with an awesome filmmaker who goes by Otium, and got to play around with all these different performance setups in front of a cyclorama wall in downtown LA.
TOUR DATES:
July 31 Wed Andy's Bar - Denton, TX
Aug 01 Thu Hal & Mal's - Jackson, MS
Aug 02 Fri Saturn – Birmingham, AL *
Aug 03 Sat The Blue Room – Nashville, TN *
Aug 05 Mon Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL *
Aug 06 Tue Magic Stick – Detroit, MI *
Aug 08 Thu Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON *
Aug 09 Fri Théâtre Fairmount – Montréal, QC *
Aug 11 Sun The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA *
Aug 12 Mon Elsewhere – Brooklyn, NY *
Aug 13 Tue Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA *
Aug 14 Wed Union Stage – Washington, DC *
Aug 16 Fri Masquerade (Altar) - Atlanta, GA
Aug 18 Sun Mohawk (inside) - Austin, TX
Sep 07 Sat Zebulon - Los Angeles, CA # (Record Release Show)
Oct 10 Thu Desert Daze Fest - Lake Perris, CA
* = w/ Wild Nothing
# = w/ Goon
Peel Dream Magazine
Rose Main Reading Room
(Topshelf)
Street Date: Sept. 04, 2024
Pre-order it here
Track Listing:
Dawn
Central Park West
Oblast
Wish You Well
Wood Paneling Pt. 3
R.I.P. (Running In Place)
I Wasn't Made For War
Gems and Minerals
Machine Repeating
Recital
Migratory Patterns
Four Leaf Clover
Lie In The Gutter
Ocean Life
Counting Sheep
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