6th album
Peaking Lights 6th album “E S C A P E”
We will also be playing Peaking Lights, sixth album, "E S C A P E" in the gallery.
With their first LP in over three years, Californian psych-dub duo Peaking Lights offer an outlet from the mundane with a kaleidoscopic collection of lo-fi, escapist-electronic pop.
PEAKING LIGHTS
E S C A P E
With their first LP in over three years, Californian psych-dub duo Peaking Lights offer an outlet from the mundane with a kaleidoscopic collection of lo-fi, escapist-electronic pop. Over their illustrious twelve-year-plus career, the husband and wife duo of Aaron Coyes and Indra Dunis have set themselves apart with their characteristic dreamy, and melancholic sound that blends together elements of dub, and delicate-but-quirky electronics. E S C A P E, Peaking Light’s sixth album, and first for Dekmantel, finds them at their finest, replete with atmospheric landscapes crafted out of homemade-percussive loops, that sit alongside wondrous electronic pop and krautrock-like hooks, all tied together by Indra Dunis’ composed and hypnotic vocal charm.
BIOGRAPHY
Now based out in Amsterdam, and having firmly established themselves on Dekmantel with their 2018 EP Sea of Sand, Coyes and Dunis’ unique brand of indie-synthwave yet further explores their ongoing delve into transcendental, psychedelic music. With E S C A P E, the production duo illustrate their pragmatic use of instrumentation and dubbing to create more heady and celestial avant-pop. From the very outset on opening track ‘Dharma’, the band’s iconic retro-dub aesthetic kicks in, before being accompanied by a litany of drum machines, sweeping compressed effects, and Dunis’...
Released May 11, 2020
Link to acquire the album: https://peakinglights.bandcamp.com/album/e-s-c-a-p-e
Live Feed today (Thursday) at 12 :30 pm (pst) with Aaron Coyes @peakinglights regarding their most recent album (6th) “E S C A P E” we will also discuss he work in the group exhibition, “Agent of Ordinary Pleasures” which is an interactive piece, “Score for Intimacy”.
Join us at lunch time for a brief chat as the artist/musician is based in Amsterdam and we can catch up on everything Peaking Lights ✨ as well as dive into Aaron’s numerous projects in art. Check out @the_original_slayron