Photo by Anna Moody
Colossal nine-piece band Peer Pleasure have released their latest single, ‘Shed Residents’. The preview that should, undoubtedly, get you very excited at the prospect of their debut album Unvetted Males, announced alongside this single.
Dark, slightly unhinged and sure to evoke a smile, the blend of hazy psychedelia and spoken word commentary with huge distorted walls of sound across a nearly six-minute runtime is everything you’d expect to hear reading that sentence. It slowly builds to a steady breakdown of huge noise, snarling vocals and a sense of inescapable discomfort. The tension is relieved by the almost theatrical oddness of it all; it’s bleak, but strangely affectionate.
The band shares, “Shed Residents was written lyrically in 2023 and pieced together musically over the course of the year, it reflects on a time in my life of uncertainty and the places people go to find stability in the turbulence, during the covid pandemic all my friends either lived in the one place or were there all the time even if they didn’t, we created our own bubble and intense world full of humour, joy, desperation and different flavours of mental illness and full blown psychosis.
The setting and the subject matter are an observation and reflection of that time, conversations had, events that happened and deliriums endured. It always felt like the morning after a session, but not the good ones. The ones where everyone is kind of ready to head home but they feel awkward being the first one to leave, and also some of them actually live there. In many ways it was the greatest time in the worst of places”
Since 2022, Peer Pleasure have been punching out with a DIY spirit, performing across Ireland and wider mainland Europe. Packed out Whelans, played Electric Picnic three years in a row, and even taken their noise to New York, amongst early praise. Now that the announcement is made for the debut album, the buzz grows.
Check it out here!
