PEALS
THE COMPOUND 76

THRILLX650
Thrill Jockey
213- 1: Wild Honey (live)
- 2: Become Younger (live)
- 3: Essential Attitudes (live)
- 4: Punk Migration (live)
- 5: Lonestar (live)
- 6: Believers (live)
- 7: Floating Leaf (live)
- 8: Pink Cloud (live)
Four years near the beginning of the last decade, William Cashion and Bruce Willen created quietly radiant instrumental music from two tessellated guitars, a few modest synths, and a slew of percussive and noisy toys, like walkie-talkies or the things that gave the pair their handle, bells. This 2016 live recording is taken from the band"s next-to-last show, cut in an artist-run space called The Compound in their hometown of Baltimore. Peals is the project of two bassists known best for their other livewire and loud Baltimore bands: Future Islands for Cashion, Double Dagger for Willen. This recording does not feel at all out-of-time, like some overlooked gem that was simply swallowed by its moment. It sounds relevant, welcoming, welcome. These 38 seamless minutes have clear predecessors: Manuel Göttsching"s E2-E4, Cluster and Eno"s Cologne dalliances, the way Midwest Emo could sound smarter than its lyrics read.

