UNDER THE WEATHER DUE SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 VIA DINE ALONE RECORDS
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ANNOUNCES 2022 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
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Today, Toronto-based musician Homeshake, born Peter Sagar, is announcing a new album. Under The Weather, Sagar's fifth studio album under the Homeshake moniker, is an atmospheric, 12-track reflection on the artist's life and depression. Written in 2019, the album documents a long, unrelenting period of sadness for the artist.
To coincide with the album announcement, Homeshake is sharing the project's first single. "Vacuum" is an introspective, downtempo track, and reflects the tender emotions on display on Under The Weather well. The new song comes alongside a surreal and artfully animated video directed by Jordan Speer and produced by Brain Dead Studios. Homeshake has had a longstanding relationship with the LA based streetwear brand, and the company produced all of the music videos for the record and collaborated on a special line of Under The Weather products.
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Additionally, Homeshake is also announcing a 2022 North American tour. Beginning April 3, 2022 in Calgary, he'll also make stops in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Along the way, he'll be joined by Bay Area artist Salami Rose Joe Louis from April 28th through the 30th and tickets go on sale June 30th at 10AM ET here. Full tour dates can be found below.
Vinyl for the record, which includes a limited edition Dine Alone Orange Crush variant, is available for pre-order today.
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MORE ABOUT UNDER THE WEATHER
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 readies it for release this September, the record he wrote about feeling isolated, alone, and despondent 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!
2022 TOUR DATES
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 @ TBA
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*
* = w/ Salami Rose Joe Louis