Dragging garage rock kicking and screaming to all new lows: Peer Pleasure, consisting of Brandon Murphy, Cein O’Dowd, Erik Murphy, Fiachra Carey, Jack Joyce, Jeff Miller, Joel Pitcher and Joseph O’Gorman, are back for more ahead of their latest single; ‘Rest in Bits’.
The newly shorn Peer Pleasure release ‘Rest In Bits’ wastes no time cutting to the chase right out of the gate, throwing an explosive grenades’ worth of fuzzed-out surf grooves and menacing primal rock and roll riffage at the listener right from the starting pistol.
Native Wexford garage punks stew up a potent elixir of influences into a tasty broth, ranging somewhere between an undaunted Stooges-esque stomper and a mid 1950s Big Bopper chart topper, then decide to kick the whole pot down the stairs just for the fun of it.
When tasked with shining a light upon the meaning behind the songs lyrics, frontman Brandon Murphy had the following to say;
“Each line of Rest In Bits refers to or reflects on a real-life human being I knew who is now dead. It’s more on the nose than previous offerings but that’s fine. They are in fact dead. Which is pretty on the nose.
Cause of death?
Are you fond?
Would you be fond?
Of the drink.”
Recorded live at Hellfire Studios, Dublin, ‘Rest In Bits’ was engineered by Joe McGrath, mixed by Ivan Jackman and mastered by Killian Taylor. This fourth single comes ahead of a soon to be announced EP from the group.
Gigging at punk festivals, pubs and squats across Northern Europe, the band have adopted a DIY ethos which has already brought them to Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
Peer Pleasure have been busy the last year, with notable performances at Whelans Summer Watch, Whelans Ones To Watch and Electric Picnic’s Spike Island stage where they drew an unprecedented crowd, who swung from rafters and very nearly caused the stage to cave in. The group have also maintained solidarity with groups like the Revolutionary Housing League, playing DIY gigs in improvised accommodation which provide refuge for many homeless around Dublin city and further afield.
