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2022 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 4, 2022
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Today, Toronto-based musician Homeshake, born Peter Sagar, shares his new album Under The Weather. Written in 2019, Under The Weather, is out via Dine Alone and is Sagar's fifth studio album under the Homeshake moniker. The album is an atmospheric, 12-track reflection on life and depression, and documents a long, unrelenting period of sadness for the artist.
To celebrate the release of Under The Weather, Homeshake is sharing a weather forecast app that gets a fan’s location (or lets them input one to get a result for other places), queries OpenWeather’s API to find out the weather they are experiencing, and suggests an appropriate song from the album to accompany their day.
Try it out at: https://homeshake.net/forecast/
WATCH AND SHARE “VACUUM” HERE
The album's release closely follows the Keith Rankin-directed video, "I Know I Know I Know", one of three singles shared in tandem with an animated visual, following "Passenger Seat", directed by Pete Sharp and "Vacuum", directed by Jordan Speer. Homeshake teamed up with aforementioned Brain Dead Studios, the producer for each of the videos, to create a cohesive visual universe around the record with the animations and forthcoming merchandise.
WATCH AND SHARE "I KNOW I KNOW I KNOW" HERE
Under The Weather also arrives ahead of Homeshake's 2022 North American and European tours. Homeshake's North American tour will begin April 2nd in Edmonton and will continue on across the country for 33 dates, including stops in Brooklyn, Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago and more, before concluding the run May 26th in Detroit. He'll be joined by UK duo Babeheaven from April 18th through April 27th and Bay Area artist Salami Rose Joe Louis from April 28th through May 26th. The European leg of the tour kicks off on September 14th in Glasgow and wraps up in Warsaw on September 29th. Tickets are available here.
WATCH AND SHARE "PASSENGER SEAT" HERE
Vinyl for the record, which includes a limited edition Dine Alone Orange Crush variant, is available to purchase now.
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2022 TOUR DATES
4/2 - Edmonton, AB @ Starlite
4/3 - Calgary, AB @ Commonwealth
4/15 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
4/16 - Montreal, QC @ Fairmount Theatre
4/18 - Boston, MA @ Royale+
4/19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel+
4/20 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts+
4/22 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club+
4/23 - Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle+
4/24 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse+
4/25 - Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge+
4/27 - New Orleans, LA @ Republic New Orleans+
4/28 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live*
4/29 - Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas*
4/30 - Dallas, TX @ Studio At The Factory
5/2 - San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger*
5/3 - El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace*
5/4 - Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
5/6 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park*
5/7 - Las Vegas, NV @ 24 Oxford at Virgin Hotels*
5/8 - Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory*
5/12 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern*
5/13 - San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom*
5/14 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom*
5/16 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre*
5/17 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile*
5/19 - Boise, ID @ Neurolux*
5/20 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge*
5/21 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre*
5/23 - Kansas City, MO @ Record Bar*
5/24 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Cedar Cultural Center*
5/25 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall*
5/26 - Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theater*
9/14 - Glasgow, UK @ Saint Luke's
9/15 - Manchester, UK @ Gorilla
9/16 - Leeds, UK @ Belgrave Music Hall
9/17 - London UK @ Electric Brixton
9/18 - Brighton, UK @ Chalk
9/20 - Paris, FR @ Trabendo
9/21 - Köln, DE @ Bumann & SOHN
9/22 - Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVendenburg
9/23 - Antwerpt, BL @ Muziekcentrum Trix
9/25 - Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
9/27 - Berlin, DE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg
9/28 - Poznan, PL @ LAB
9/29 - Warsaw, PL @ Klub Hydrozagadka
* = w/ Salami Rose Joe Louis
+ = w/ Babeheaven
MORE ABOUT HOMESHAKE
Unlike most of us, Peter Sagar — also known as Homeshake — was staying at home a lot, long before the pandemic. Sagar wrote the majority of his fifth studio album, Under The Weather, in 2019, when he was going through a long, unrelenting period of sadness. “I was in a deep, deep depression,” he recalls of that time period now. “Tours were breaking me. It was awful.” Sagar and his partner were living in Montreal and while everyone was out being social, he was inside listening to ambient music, binging Star Trek, and writing songs. (Sound familiar?) “It was a bit of a dark pit,” he says. “That’s kind of what the whole album is about.”
Under The Weather follows Sagar’s life and the depression that consumed him in 2019 — after a brief album intro, it jumps right into “Feel Better”, a reflection on attempting to buck up when the weather outside is grim. The album is hazy and moody, the pace slow as syrup, and from beginning to end, a fog falls over every synth and guitar line. In “Inaminit”, Sagar cancels plans when he’s feeling low; the closing track, “Tenterhooks”, sees Sagar’s deliverance into the depths of despair: “Feel myself drying up / feel myself turn into dust,” he sings over a funhouse mirror synth. “Oftentimes when you’re in a dark place, you’re supposed to journal and that helps release the pressure,” Sagar says. “For me, it always found its way into the music.”
Capturing the cloudy sound of a depressive funk was no simple feat, especially in the headspace Sagar was in for over a year. For that reason, he decided to enlist his friend, Jerry Paper’s Lucas Nathan, to help with production on the record. Having Nathan contribute helped Sagar dial back some of the “dry, pristine digital sound” that defined his fourth studio album, Helium, and add back personal analog touches that drew people to the Homeshake project in the first place.
“I didn’t realize how much I missed having a second set of ears. It’s pretty invaluable,” Sagar says. He would send all of the tracks back and forth with Nathan over the course of 2019, which made the process a longer one than he was used to. “There are a lot of things that I probably wouldn't have done that Lucas did do. I would tend to do a lot of softening of things, a lot of making everything super bassy and gentle. Lucas was aware that sometimes you needed some punch and grit.” To Sagar, those additions made the record what it is — a melodic, honest look at personal emotional struggle.
As Sagar releases the record he wrote about feeling isolated, alone, and despondent, it has begun to seem eerily prescient. “People will probably think that I made Under The Weather during or about Covid,” Sagar reflects now. “I was just already living my life that way.” For Sagar, the feelings he experienced over the course of that year are far from over — “I’ve been writing about feeling isolated my whole life,” he says — but with age, he has come to understand them better. “I had a fairly clear idea what the album was going to be like based on where I was emotionally at the time,” he says about Under The Weather. “I just try to make music that is honest about how I’m feeling.”
UNDER THE WEATHER TRACKLIST
1. Wake Up!
2. Feel Better
3. Vacuum
4. I Know I Know I Know
5. Inaminit
6. Careful
7. Mindless
8. Spend It
9. Half Asleep After the Movies
10. Passenger Seat
11. Tenterhooks
12. Reboot!