P.E. - The Leather Lemon LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition green colour vinyl.

P.E.‘s ecstatic 2020 debut Person overflowed with the kind of inspiration that can’t be carefully planned. Essentially the result of happenstance - members of Pill and Eaters (hence: P.E.) forming a new band when the full lineups of either band weren’t available for a scheduled live show - Person was a product of electricity and spontaneity, its industrial post-punk grooves born of improvised sessions and dancepunk jams that, when given the hypnotic surrealist poetry of Veronica Torres and the saxophone sparkle of Benjamin Jaffe, transcend the idea of punk jam session, turning to avant garde pop gems with just the right amount of polish and editing.

On their second album, P.E. begin with a similar set of tools and a comparatively loose approach, but where they end up feels a bit different than their previous lab experiment. They carve out deeper grooves and mine darker textures, reveling in a kind of intoxicated, nocturnal exhilaration - these songs aren’t so much heavier as denser, all of the elements that came together on Person now calcifying into crystallized solid.