Peel Dream Magazine have announced a new album, Rose Main Reading Room. The follow-up to 2022’s Pad will arrive via Topshelf Records on September 4. It’s led by the single ‘Lie in the Gutter’, which you can check out below.
Of the new song and its accompanying visual, the band’s Joseph Stevens said:
This video is cut from footage we filmed on a few different tours between the fall of 2023 and Spring of 2024, and I love it because it captures the amazing feeling and energy that those trips had. There’s cameos from bands we were touring with like Chastity Belt and Gift, and friends like Simi Sohota from Healing Potpourri. A lot of it was shot in the Pacific Northwest and features some hikes we got to take among the dense green forests up there. I wanted to capture that stuff because this theme of “the natural world” has been jostling around my my brain for awhile and is a big part of the album. The song is meant to be a very simple statement about finding joy and wonder in life despite whatever may be on your mind. The phrase it’s taken from is the trite but sweet Oscar Wilde quote ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars’.
Rose Main Reading Room Cover Artwork:
Rose Main Reading Room Tracklist:
1. Dawn
2. Central Park West
3. Oblast
4. Wish You Well
5. Wood Paneling Pt. 3
6. R.I.P. (Running In Place)
7. I Wasn’t Made For War
8. Gems and Minerals
9. Machine Repeating
10. Recital
11. Migratory Patterns
12. Four Leaf Clover
13. Lie In The Gutter →
14. Ocean Life
15. Counting Sheep
