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 “The Best Rock Albums of 2019.”
