THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Together, Peter Dreams and Moonriivr create music that taps into a deeper, instinctive level of the unconscious mind. Their sound, a blend of twisted doo-wop and post-punk, feels like a psychic cold plunge, recasting one of alternative rock’s most recognizable voices.
On their self-titled album’s gentlest moments — Arrivals, Vigilant and Jesus & John — they tenderly examine our most poignant and overwhelming moments, our hellos and goodbyes. Lullabies for all stages of life, these quieter selections reveal the softest underbelly of the self, warily walking the line between the chaos and groundedness of raw honesty.
Elsewhere on the album, Peter Dreams and Moonriivr dig in with grittier cuts. From the singed scuttle of Bad Habits, a child of Mule Variations, to the stone cold catharsis of Forget Yer Name, out-of-body battles between bold swagger and self-awareness take place. Come Save Me and Keep Me Free joyride waves of pride and insecurity in equal measure. Unremarkable and Ecstasy Railings glide and sway into memory spaces.
From childhood homes to a teenage state of mind, these nostalgia-steeped backdrops create snapshots of blues and jeans and simpler times yet untouched by hindsight. In keeping with the album’s major theme of turning points, the songs inhabit the past before it played out. Not so much unleashed as it is untangled, the songs on this debut originate in the back pockets of Peter’s psyche and are set to Moonriivr’s decade-hopping concoctions. The lyrics resurface profound events of all sorts — brushes with death, life altering occurrences and other cataclysmic disturbances — the kinds of catastrophes and euphorias that don’t fit comfortably in the everyday front of the mind.
Peter Dreams is the new project of Peter Dreimanis, co-lead of the Juno-winning alt-rock band July Talk. An artful, instinct-led exploration, his songs are sourced in a dizzy mix of anticipation, hesitation and introspection that accompanies the future, as it arrives.”
