Peals - “Punk Migration” Featuring James Iha

[amoergosum]

"Listen To Peals’s Heavenly Layered “Punk Migration” Featuring James Iha
The Baltimore duo teamed up with the co-founder of The Smashing Pumpkins for this standout track from their new album, Honey.

If you catch the sweet feels of The Smashing Pumpkins in their mid-'90s prime from this deep sigh of a guitar-electronics jam by Baltimore duo Peals, your ears are not lying to you. "Punk Migration" features the deft touch — and vocals — of guitarist and TSP co-founder James Iha, and is a dreamy highlight from Peals's new album, Honey, due out tomorrow. If you're new to them, the band is made up of William Cashion of Future Islands and Bruce Willen, formerly of Double Dagger, and they make silken instrumentals that will speak to your insides. (Bonus: check out the illustrated video for "Become Younger" and tour dates below.)

"'Punk Migration' was originally almost ten minutes long with two distinct parts," Peals told The FADER over email. "We weren't quite sure what the song needed, so we sent a rough draft to James, who we met on tour in 2014. We thought he might add a guitar part or two, but when he sent us his tracks, James had added multiple layers of guitars, synths, bass, piano, and voice. While mixing with Chester Gwazda we decided to cut the original, dancier intro, and the song became a more meditative moment on the album."

Friends Records will release Peals's new album Honey on September 16."

Link:
http://www.thefader.com/2016/09/15/p...ation-premiere

[BurtSampson]

literally better than any Pumpkins song post 1998

[Ram27]

goddamn

there's that hypnotic groove

[glass85]

Anything with Iha become more "meditative".

[NovaFritz]

While it might not be as rocking or even as hooky as later day BC, this is certainly more interesting to listen to.

[thedeadofnight]

really like this

[pepper666]

very nice but needs BC input and would make a great song...

[amoergosum]

Originally Posted by pepper666

very nice but needs BC input and would make a great song...

I just played around a bit.
There's an isolated vocal track of Cherub Rock on YouTube.

- start the song "Punk Migration" at around 1:00
- play this part (0:39) from the isolated vocal track at the same time (just the part where he sings "...money") >>>
https://youtu.be/cFCUjWZ6-nI?t=39s

[pepper666]

wow, much better

[Ram27]

Originally Posted by Dade

to each his own and all man but christ.. how can you actually say this has any SP vibe to it whatsoever? if we're being technical here the only hint of anything SP is james' flatpicking through a simple chord progression- then he just sprinkled in the hipster ambient noises in the background.

also this is not good.

I wasn't expecting anything at all out of it going in, which helped. The dreamy vibe and the guitar remind me a lot of the Ruby outro, which I love. Honestly, I'd rather like the song than not like the song

[SomaPhreak]

I really like this. It reminds me of Ruby. Well done James!

[FoolofaTook]

U think Iha blazed up before recording that? Must have had hella squinty squinty eyes.

[Ram27]

evil ancient japanese look

[MTAE]

I like it, but this would honestly just be the intro or outro to a classic SP song.

[enthusaroo]

Originally Posted by MTAE

I like it, but this would honestly just be the intro or outro to a classic SP song.

classic SP is dead RIP 1999.

[Elphenor]

This was cool

James Iha is the reason every SP song isn't a complete cheese fest

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by Ram27

evil ancient japanese look

Now this is a true believer right here. That's from pregish times is it not? Reel time demos, maybe?