Peaer, the New York slowcore trio started by bandleader Peter Katz in 2014, have announced their first new album in nearly seven years. Doppelgänger is out January 16 via Danger Collective. Their fourth LP is led by the single “Button.” Give that new song a listen below.
Katz wrote “Button” after beginning a full-time office job in 2023 that shifted his perspective on his identity. “It grew into a song about small moments and their impact on the course of your life,” he explained. “There are lots of questions in the lyrics, a lot dealing with the idea of: You wanted this, didn’t you? What do you do now that you have it? Is it what you expected? There is also a moment of humility towards the end, with the acknowledgement that even if we don’t necessarily want to ‘work’ there is a power in being a part of something larger than yourself.”
Doppelgänger follows Peaer’s 2019 album, A Healthy Earth. In the years since then, Peaer never stopped working on new music, despite their 2020 tour plans being derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their new full-length collects songs from the band’s entire career, with some ideas dating back to 2015. It also includes “Just Because,” a track Peaer released last year.
Read about Peaer’s A Healthy Earth in Pitchfork’s “The Best Rock Albums of 2019.”
