Peel Dream Magazine have announced a new album, Rose Main Reading Room, which will be out September 4 via Top Shelf. It’s their first record for the label after three albums for Slumberland. Bandleader Joseph Stevens co-produced the album with Ian Gibbs (Vinyl Williams, Winter) and the band say New York City’s many landmarks served as inspiration.
Previous albums have found Stevens taking influence from ’90s shoegaze, Stereolab and The High Llamas, and you can hear all that on droney, vibraphone heavy first single “Lie in the Gutter,” but Peel Dream Magazine have found their own sound within all those things. The video features footage from the band’s most recent tours.
“This video is cut from footage we filmed on a few different tours between the fall of 2023 and Spring of 2024, and I love it because it captures the amazing feeling and energy that those trips had,” says Stevens. “There’s cameos from bands we were touring with like Chastity Belt and GIFT, and friends like Simi Sohota from Healing Potpourri. A lot of it was shot in the Pacific Northwest and features some hikes we got to take among the dense green forests up there. I wanted to capture that stuff because this theme of ‘the natural world’ has been jostling around my my brain for awhile and is a big part of the album. The song is meant to be a very simple statement about finding joy and wonder in life despite whatever may be on your mind. The phrase it’s taken from is the trite but sweet Oscar Wilde quote ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’. ”
Peel Dream Magazine will be on tour with Wild Nothing this summer, including Brooklyn’s Elsewhere Hall on August 12. All dates are listed below.
Rose Main Reading Room
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
PEEL DREAM MAGAZINE – 2024 TOUR DATES
July 31 Wed Andy’s Bar – Denton, TX
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)
* = w/ Wild Nothing
# = w/ Goon