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NEW ALBUM UNDER THE WEATHER DUE SEPTEMBER 10 VIA DINE ALONE
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2022 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN APRIL 4, 2022
On the heels of announcing his new album, Toronto-based musician Homeshake, born Peter Sagar, returns to share a new offering from Under The Weather. Designed and directed by Pete Sharp, "Passenger Seat" is an animated, intergalactic highway short that perfectly captures the track's intimate and meticulously crafted soundscape. "The details in each scene are amazing," Sagar says. "They compliment the minimalist production of the song so well." Of the collaboration, Pete Sharp says, "I love the music of Homeshake! When I heard the title 'Passenger seat' I thought 'passenger seat—cars—traffic jam—in space?' I think the slow moving interstellar pile up really reflects the pace and mood of the track. I hope the general public does too!” The song is the second track from the album following "Vacuum", which arrived alongside an animated video directed by Jordan Speer and produced by Brain Dead Studios.
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Written in 2019, Under The Weather, is out via Dine Alone Records and is Sagar's fifth studio album under the Homeshake moniker. The album is an atmospheric, 12-track reflection on the artist's life and depression, and documents a long, unrelenting period of sadness for the artist.
Under The Weather also arrives ahead of Homeshake's 2022 North American tour. Beginning April 2nd in Edmonton, he'll play 33 dates across North America including stops in Calgary, Montreal, Toronto, and more. He'll be joined by Bay Area artist Salami Rose Joe Louis from April 28th through May 26th. Tickets are available here.
Vinyl for the record, which includes a limited edition Dine Alone Orange Crush variant, is available for pre-order now.
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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 “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 the of 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.”
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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*
* = w/ Salami Rose Joe Louis
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!