Broadcast

Peel Dream Magazine + Wild Cabin + Loris S. Sarid

January 23rd, 2023

PCL PRESENTS

Peel Dream Magazine + Wild Cabin + Loris S. Sarid

Monday 23rd January 2023

Broadcast, Glasgow

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AGE 18+

DOORS 7PM

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Tickets available here:

https://www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/629f86af3f48093e5c363625/e/63be8f4ca0c00c2dda2d1855

With his third album as Peel Dream Magazine, Joseph Stevens
beckons you toward a fabulist, zig-zag world entirely of his own
design. On Pad, he eschews the fuzzy glories of his indie pop past
vibraphone trembles while chamber strings take center stage. The
curtains lift to reveal banjo. Chimes. Farfisa. And as he lets out a moan
atop the album’s title track, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary
performance. A conceptual work about losing oneself when all they
have is themself, Pad gestures towards an exciting new future for
Stevens’ pop moniker by reimagining its own very existence.

The follow-up to 2020’s breakthrough album Agitprop Alterna, Pad
presents a major sonic evolution for the 34 year old songwriter, who
moved to Los Angeles amid the cataclysm that same year. Seventies
era drum machines and synthesizers remain here, but he’s traded his
buzzing offset guitar for a nylon-string, opting for a gentle baroque
pop sound steeped in Bossa, folk, and its own eerie mysticism.
Alongside mid century touchstones like Burt Bacharach, Stevens
draws on the cultishly-beloved tinkerings of late-1960s Beach Boys,
offering a surreal melange of vintage organs and found percussion, as
well as Harry Nilsson’s 1970 song tapestry The Point!