WHAT’S set San Fran’s ace garage outfit The Peacers apart from other bands from that city’s scene they’re travelling alongside (and exchanging members with) is a more baroque, acoustic approach to their garage vision; maybe a little more Pearls Before Swine in that initial mix than say, Bubble Puppy, maybe more ’66 than ’69.
Frankly, it’s about time we had a third album from them; 2015’s self-titled debut, full of lazy, glammy nuggets, and Introducing The Crimsmen, which followed two years on (and whoah, hang on, did we ever get that introduction already? I don’t remember actually meeting them on that occasion. Mind you, fair, there was a lot of “Haptic Chillweed” about that fateful night …) were getting lonely out here. Three’s company, when the company’s this good.
And well, whaddya know, the second Peacers line-up, the one that recorded that second album after exactly two-thirds of the album one version made for the out door – they’ve held firm to the tiller for this little beauty, so props, Bo Moore, Shayde Sartin and Mike Shoun.
Mike Donovan may have headed for the east coast and dropped a couple of solo sets, but they’ve kept a welcome in the Cali hillsides. Jolly good show. No time to shilly-shally. Prop the doors open lads, we’s a comin’ in.
Their new single, “Ghost of a Motherfucker” takes us on a neat garage rock ride, every riff counting, Mike beaming in from AM radio in a rusty Chevy a la Christine; timeless. And it riffs up atonally and lazyass deliciously while that motherfucker sleeps all day.
The Peacers’ Blexxed Rec will be released by Drag City on March 26th, digitally, on cassette and on vinyl, and is available to order right now over at the label’s webstore; or get y’self down to your neighbourhood record emporium.
