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Vancouver’s Peach Pit has just unveiled their new album, Magpie, via Columbia Records. With expansive arrangements and heartfelt songwriting, the eleven tracks on the LP find the band—lead singer Neil Smith, guitarist Chris Vanderkooy, bassist Peter Wilton, and drummer Mikey Pascuzzi—exploring classic influences while crafting a sound that’s unmistakably their own. With three albums and two EPs under their belt the band has over a billion streams, and yet the new record, touching on themes of confronting divergent paths and making hard choices in life, represents some of their strongest music yet. 

Today the band also shares a new single, the hypnotic and indie-pop “Am I Your Girl.” Of the song, Smith notes, “We’ve had ‘Am I Your Girl’ sitting and collecting dust in the back of our songbook for a long time now. It was written back in 2018 and over the next six years we recorded countless demos and three studio versions before we finally ended up with a record that we liked. The song is from the point of view of an old love, someone that I pined over for many years. On and off and in between other relationships, I would always think of her. The song is her asking if she is on my mind again, just like old times.”

Listen/share “Am I Your Girl” HERE.

Peach Pit are celebrating the release of Magpie on the road as they hit select record stores and radio stations on the East Coast. Tonight they do an in-store signing at Newbury Comics in Cambridge, MA at 5pm. The string of appearances also takes them to New York City’s Rough Trade on October 28 for an in-store at 4pm.  This winter and spring the band will head out on a world-wide tour of Australia, Europe and the UK including a stop at the O2 Academy Brixton in London. Watch this space for more dates across the globe to be announced in the coming weeks.  Currently announced dates are listed below.

The quartet is indeed in fine form on the new single ‘Magpie.’” MXDWN

“Magpie, a project that may shape up to merge the band’s indie rock roots with the influences they began exploring on their last album…“Did You Love Somebody” further solidifies this album’s positioning as a deeply retrospective, contemplative record” – Atwood Magazine

“Surprise, surprise, we are obsessed with the newest Peach Pit song!”  The Honey Pop

““Magpie” is really good jangly pop” – Riff Magazine

“It’s a powerful adjacency of sound and sentiment” – Hype

Peach Pit’s fourth album is a masterclass in expansive arrangement and deeply felt songwriting—a winning formula that only continues the incredible trajectory the band’s been on since their star-making debut EP Sweet FA  in 2016. The eleven songs captured on Magpie find the quartet—lead singer Neil Smith, guitarist Chris Vanderkooy, bassist Peter Wilton, and drummer Mikey Pascuzzi—diving deeper into classic sounds while honing a musical style that entirely feels like their own. 

While making Magpie, Peach Pit drew inspiration from the Beatles’ classic and distinct approach to melody, as well as the multifarious sounds explored within the Fab Four’s various side projects. The end result is Peach Pit’s most sonically kaleidoscopic record yet; from the deeply felt indie-rock sound they’ve already become well-known for to the psychedelic touches that surfaced on records like You and Your Friends and From 2 to 3. 

The record’s distinctive title was partly inspired by witnessing flocks of magpies on tour in Australia, which served as creative inspiration for Smith’s songwriting. Back home in Vancouver, some further research led him to discover an old poem concerning the peculiar, beautiful bird:“One for sorrow, Two for luck, Three for a wedding, Four for death; Five for silver, Six for gold; Seven for a secret, Not to be told; Eight for heaven, Nine for hell, And ten for the devil’s own sell.”

“I thought it was interesting how these birds can be good and bad omens,” he explains, before elaborating on how his own decision to quit drinking years ago dovetailed with the symbolic subject matter captured on the record’s wild-eyed, guitar solo-laden title track. “I came up with this character—a person that represented the left turn I could’ve taken in my life,” Smith states. “He represented the worst-case scenario if I hadn’t stopped drinking and partying, and I connected him to that poem’s message about the good and bad in life. It all depends on which road you take.”

 

Peach Pit East Coast Record Store Appearances 

10/25 – Cambridge, MA @ Newbury Comics  

10/26 – Hoboken, NJ @ Tunes

10/28 – New York City @ Rough Trade

10/29 – Baltimore, MD @ Sound Garden 

 

AUS/ NZ Dates

2/28- Freo.Social –  Perth, Australia 

3/2 – Fortitude Music Hall – Brisbane, Australia 

3/5  – Forum – Melbourne, Australia 

3/7 – Enmore Theatre – Sydney, Australia 

3/9 – Powerstation – Auckland, New Zealand

 

EU / UK Dates 

4/3 – O2 Academy – Bristol, UK

4/4 – Rock City – Nottingham, UK

4/6 – The Old Fruitmarket – Glasgow, UK

4/7 – 3Olympia – Dublin, Ireland

4/9 – O2 Academy – Leeds, UK

4/10 – Academy – Manchester, UK

4/11 – O2 Academy Brixton – London, UK

4/14 – Le Trianon – Paris, France

4/15 – Bürgerhaus Stollwerck – Cologne, Germany

4/17 – Trix – Antwerp, Belgium

4/18 – TivoliVredenburg – Utrecht, Netherlands

4/21 – Pumpehuset – Copenhagen, Denmark

4/22 – Debaser – Stockholm, Sweden

4/23 – Parkteatret – Oslo, Norway

4/25 – Uebel andamp; Gefahrlich – Hamburg, Germany

4/26 – Kesselhaus – Berlin, Germany

4/28 – Niebo – Warsaw, Poland

4/29 – MeetFactory – Prague, Czech Republic

4/30 – Szene Wien – Vienna, Austria

5/2 – Mascotte – Zurich, Switzerland

5/3 – Circolo Magnolia – Milan, Italy

5/6 – Sala Wolf – Barcelona, Spain

5/7 – Sala Nazca – Madrid, Spain