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Rose-tinted, fizzy electrics from Peach who seems to grasp the vintage hues and fruity feels of yesterday via four incredibly delicious tracks of smiley faced house and techno. A heady record that ignites the senses and stokes the fires in your belly; sure to have you scouring the hills, forests, warehouses and caves for some e-fuelled, free party pleasure that'll have you jiving till sunrise. TIP! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Minimal arrangements, crisp highs, deep bass and heady atmospheres make for a cerebral and direct record that lies somewhere between house, techno and IDM.

TRACK LISTING

A Pretty Planet
Charmed
Sugar N Spice Deeper Dub
Sugar N Spice Rollin Dub

Peach Discs showcase the talents of Bristol-based producer & DJ Daisy Moon with a playful, energetic and melodic exploration of her club-focused sound.

Inspired by those anticipatory, unifying moments on the dancefloor, the four-track record is upfront and summer-ready - pairing groovy, intricate drums with earworming synth lines, field recordings, and submerged vocal chops, all mixed with vibrancy and dynamism for maximum vitality.

Daisy developed her sound and identity through multiple platforms and collaborations across the UK. She’s a key figure in Bristol’s electronic music scene - with early involvement as a resident at club night Housework (co-run with Shanti, Gramrcy and Golesworthy), co-founding Mix Nights - the DJ initiative from Saffron (music-tech courses and community for women, trans, non-binary and minority genders), as part of the sprawling Curl collective (Mica Levi, Coby Sey, Brother May) and most recently founding Off-Kilter, a mix and event series focused on the fringes, probing the boundaries between club music and live performance.

Following an ethereal debut EP on Idle Hands and excellent contributions to Mica Levi’s Curl label and Rhythm Section’s Shouts compilation, the record marks a distinctive addition to Daisy’s palette, shifting towards 4/4 house and techno, hewing closer to the sounds found in her DJ sets. Proper party tackle!


STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Peach's remit for fresh as you like house and techno with fun filled party ethos continues in earnest with Daisy Moon delivering four festival favourites. Check!

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Tonyo
System Creak
Unseen Sunrise
Pine Odyssey

Peach Discs hits 20 releases, they celebrate with an EP from Saoirse, who delivers five techy rollers in her signature tough but sensual style.

In her own words: 'Vampire Heart and Catfished were written in the midst of lockdown - I was spending so much time in the studio (even sleeping there some nights) and was really able to explore different sounds and vibes. Vampire Heart still gives me a strange feeling as it was written the day the government announced that we had passed the peak of Covid and might be able to go outside again, something I tried to convey with the pads and break - that positive feeling of opening up. Conversely, Catfished was written during Covid’s peak - it felt like we were on this haunting loop that just kept going round and round, not knowing when it would end.

Mangomouse and Heated Cloud were written more recently and tie into what I’m calling “my tribal era.” I was a drummer for years but put the sticks and djembe down once I found electronic music… this is a path I think I’ll keep following as the rhythm comes naturally to me.'

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Came for the loud and wobbly "Mangomouse" terrace trembler, bound to make even the stiffest torsos quiver. Stayed for the minimalist fist-pumper "Driver" and cried with delight at the bassline groover, "Catfished". Saoirse giving the Circoloco massive plenty to devour this summer.

TRACK LISTING

Mangomouse
Heated Cloud
Vampire Heart
Catfished
Driver

Ill Peach

This Is Not An Exit

    Hardly Art debut and first full-length by ill peach, aka accomplished pop songwriters Jess Corazza and Pat Morrissey.

    The album is at once exuberantly catchy pop and genre-hopping modern experimental music.

    Here’s the thing about ill peach: this band exists because they are too weird to not exist.

    The seed of ill peach was first planted in the recording studios of New York City where Pat Morrissey and Jess Corazza were working together as professional songwriters, collaborating with artists like Icona Pop, SZA, Weezer, Pharrell, Big Freedia, and others. Then came the day they were offered their own publishing deal. Cool, right? Well, about that:

    “Everyone kept saying, ‘The stuff that you’re writing is slightly too left-of-center—weirdo stuff,” remembers Morrissey. “Why don’t you start your own project?”

    Thus ill peach, a pop band with a punk streak and a taste for both the rotten and the sweet, with an approach to making music that goes something like: “Do you want to pick up a guitar and do you want to be on this water jug and we’ll record it on the iPhone and create some weird drum pattern?”

    Following a series of well-received EPs on their own Pop Can Records (a record label and artist collective Morrissey and close collaborator Jesse Schuster run with friends), a digital single for Hardly Art’s 15th anniversary series, and some colorful music videos that crystallized the band’s visual aesthetic along with their sound, ill peach’s “weirdo stuff” comes to fruition on first full-length THIS IS NOT AN EXIT: a collection of anthemic songs built out of bright pop and gritty experimental elements (Morrissey names the sculptural use of distortion on the final albums by Low as an inspiration), punctuated with hooky choruses ready to be screamed along to in the safety of your own bedroom or with a bunch of friends at one of ill peach’s intense live shows.

    If ill peach first blossomed in New York, it took quarantine in Los Angeles for the project to ripen. The end of the world turned out to be what ill peach needed to get real with themselves. “It helped us creatively to zone in and removed us from the [industry] side of things to where we could just be like: this is our new identity, let's jump with both feet.”

    THIS IS NOT AN EXIT’s title is a reflection of something Corazza realized during a period of personal and familial crises. “I kept walking into buildings and I’d try to exit somewhere and the sign would be like, ‘This is not an exit,’” she says. “It just felt like a metaphor for a hopeful thing—don't give up yet.” This combination of hope and anxiety is all over THIS IS NOT AN EXIT, reflected in a sonic palette (Alternative! Electronica! Indie! Radio pop! Coldplay!) as eclectic as it is unpretentious. Ultimately, THIS IS NOT AN EXIT is a record about healing, a process often spoken about in New Age-y terms but one that in reality can be really confusing and, yes, weird. But it is the beautiful strangeness of being alive that ill peach capture so well on THIS IS NOT AN EXIT. 

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Bloom
    2. Blah Blah Blah
    3. Tornado Weather
    4. Hush
    5. Capillary Bed
    6. 17
    7. Soft (Intermission)
    8. Head Full Of Holes
    9. Sour Like Lemonade
    10. This Is Not An Exit
    11. Colliding
    12. Heavyweight
    13. Sigh

    Anna Phoebe

    Sea Souls

      In March 2020, I was asked to produce a ten-minute package for a BBC Radio arts show. Living in Deal on the Kent coast, I went down onto the beach to sit and think about what I wanted to write about. The sea is such a source of comfort, the sound of the waves and the line of the horizon a daily form of meditation and reflection. I filmed and recorded the sea then went back to my studio. I found it was easier to express my emotions through music rather than words, and so the opening track, ’By the Sea’ was born.

      Mary Anne Hobbs heard the piece and played it on her BBC Radio 6 Music show. She suggested that I release it, and that’s how Sea Souls started.

      This album takes you on a journey through the soul, each piece on this album inspired by how the sea and the weather reflected my emotions that day. 2020 was such a turbulent year and each track on this album represents a different snapshot of that time.

      Many of the pieces were recorded in a series of single improvised takes, and some were worked on over a period of time. Like the commitment to the improvised takes on violin, viola, piano, recorder, bass and guitar which pervade the music, this album is an acceptance of flaws and imperfection, letting go of the idea of perfection.

      On June 7th the music from Sea Souls will be used in collaboration with female poets across the globe opening up York Festival of Ideas, in partnership with Dhaka Lit Fest and Jaipur Literary Festival. Anna will be joined by Klara Schumann (cello) and Richard Bundy (piano) for a streamed performance from the beautiful York Minster, interweaving her music with poetry including Salena Godden, Sadaaf Saaz, Jasmin Kaur and Melizarani T.Selva.


      TRACK LISTING

      1. By The Sea
      2. Light On Waves
      3. Horizons
      4. Sirens
      5. Moon
      6. Breathe
      7. Undercurrent
      8. Sea Drift I
      9. Sea Drift II
      10. Sea Drift III
      11. Sea Souls
      12. Beyond Horizons

      Prophet & Tyler, The Creator

      Peach Fuzz / I Wanna Be Your Man

        The latest addition to Stones Throw’s incredibly popular range of beautifully designed picture discs (previous bestsellers include a heart-shaped Mayer Hawthorne 7” and a Quasimoto-shaped disc).
        Designed by Jeff Jank.
        ‘Peach Fuzz’ features underground funk musician Prophet and GRAMMY winner Tyler, The Creator.
        Cutout animation of a peach emoji featuring Tyler, The Creator’s reworked version of Prophet’s ‘Wanna Be Your Man’ on the A side and the original track produced by Prophet, Mndsgn and Swarvy on the flip.
        ‘Wanna Be Your Man’ was also the title of Prophet’s 2018 album, his first in 34 years.
        For fans of Mndsgn, Frank Ocean, Earl Sweatshirt, DJ Harrison.

        TRACK LISTING

        Tyler, The Creator - Peach Fuzz
        Prophet - Wanna Be Your Man

        Ratcatcher provides two new cuts for the esteemed Peach label, with hot-to-trott remixes from Leon Vynehall and Benjamin Damage. "Somehow" is a sleek, sub-heavy slow house jam, delicately pairing syncopated percussion with deep synthetic textures and catchy vocal snippets. "Motion" does away with the vocals and layers up sizzling white noise sweeps and techy stabs to create a pitchblack throbber for late on into the session. Leon Vynehall unloads some tough breaks onto "Somehow", turning the drum palette and overall aesthetic into summat a bit more crunchy and aggressive. Benjamin Damage tears "Motion" a new arsehole as he delivers a forward propelled nu-techno jam complete with rumbling kicks and discordant rhythmic artifacts.
        Support from: Mike Huckaby, Trevino, Maya Jane Coles, Jonas Kopp, Nikola Gala, Norman Nodge, Joris Voorn, Lorca, XXXY, Vince Watson, South London Ordnance, Eats Everything, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Shenoda, Iron Galaxy, Atjazz, Randomer, Komon, Physical Therapy, Doc Daneeka, Braille, Thefft.




        TRACK LISTING

        A1. Somehow
        A2. Motion
        B1. Somehow (Leon Vynehall Translation)
        B2. Motion (Benjamin Damage Remix)


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