PERENNIAL Releases "Emma Peel," Sets East Coast Tour From Sept 16
The New England mod trio's tour will also include UK stops in Leeds, Liverpool, Brighton and London.
Perennial has released a new single, 'Emma Peel,' the final pre-release preview of the band's anticipated new album, out September 18 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.
On the track, the band's Chad Jewitt says, 'This is shortest song on the album, and also the most packed with stuff! At first the song was built entirely around the loud post-hardcore first half, but we wanted something more adventurous for the bridge, so we gradually came up with this cool jazz interlude — a minimal groove with vibraphone and mellotron. It's the collage thing: seeing what interesting layers might fit together in surprising ways.'
Perennial's East Coast tour kicks off on September 16 in New Haven, CT at The Space Ballroom. The run will including shows in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and Boston. This fall, the band will continue overseas with a series of UK shows, including stops in Leeds, Liverpool, Brighton, and London. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.
Perennial is sharp, quick, ferocious, focused. Their bruising, bombastic sets come and go before you know it: all over but the sweating. 20 minute marathons, on stage and wax. On Modernism, the New England mod trio's newest LP, that lightning-strike chic is devoted to a pocket-symphony rave-up — 10-songs built from all the keenest bits of The Who, The Blood Brothers, Otis Redding, Stereolab, MC5, Wilson Pickett, and Le Tigre. Op art to dance to. Mellotron loops bracket electric feedback squalls; freakbeat riffs tangle up beneath Stax/Volt hooks. The band's deep, eccentric record collections, turned into a 1,200 second action painting.
Formed in 2015 in Connecticut, Perennial is Chad Jewett (electric guitar and vocals), Chelsey Hahn (electric organ and vocals), and Ceej Wolf (drums). Focusing on both unforgettable live shows — frenetic, joyful dance-punk rites of spring — and studio-as-instrument modernist recordings, the band has built a cult of dedicated international aficionados, one sticky-humid basement show at a time. Touring tirelessly, they honed their Motown-via-Dischord sound to a keen, glossy point. With their longtime producer Chris Teti (The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die), Perennial has added layer after layer to their sharp mod collage: free jazz, ambient electronica, big beat, dub, Musique concrète, all within explosive 90-second sprints.
Modernism is their best/catchiest/densest LP yet. The hooks pile high and stick fast atop dance floor strata of fuzz bass, tambourine, and Vox Continental organ jabs. Modernism marries the experimental to the ecstatic, the impressionistic to the incendiary. Available September 18th via Ernest Jenning Record Co. (US and International) and Safe Suburban Home (UK), Modernism is a new benchmark for one of punk music's most intrepid aesthetic explorers.
Tour Dates
09.09 - Amherst, MA - (The Drake w/ David Liebe Hart)
09.11 - Cape Cod, MA - Christ Church Episcopal (presented by Outer Frequencies)
September 16 - New Haven, CT - The Space Ballroom
September 17 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool (w/ Oceanator)
September 18 - Washington, D.C. - Comet Ping Pong
September 19 - Boston, MA - Deep Cuts (w/ Sinaloa & Miracle Blood)
October 8 - Oxford, UK - The Library
October 9 - Brighton, UK
October 10 - Liverpool, UK - Outpost
October 11 - Leeds, UK - Grindhouse
October 13 - Nottingham, UK - JT Soar
October 14 - Coventry, UK - Just Dropped In
October 15 - Manchester, UK - The Modernist
October 16 - London, UK - The Cavendish Arms
Tracklist
1. Modernism
2. Perennial '65
3. Cloak & Dagger
4. Me and The Magpie
5. Granny Smith Apple
6. The Shadow
7. What's New On The Beat Scene
8. Baby, Are You Abstract?
9. Ready! Steady! Go!
10. Emma Peel
Photo Credit: courtesy of the artist
Photo Credit: courtesy of the artist
