Peeling have released a new track, Away From You, that’s lifted from their forthcoming ‘7 Years of Blood’ EP. The EP is the second release from the band, which is led by singer/guitarist Annabelle Lee and features members of Dilly Dally and TOPS, following on the heels of the band’s 2016 Buzz Records debut EP, ‘Rats In Paradise’. Away From You is the second single from ‘7 Years of Blood,’ and delves into the EP’s overarching themes of agency and control, beginning as a self-described “break up song” but functioning as an assertion of independence. Take a listen to the ‘7 Years of Blood’ EP via Soundcloud below.
“‘Away From You’ is essentially about moving on from a relationship where you still love your partner but need to forge your own path,” Lee said. “I wrote it after a romance in my life ended and I felt a bittersweet acceptance rather than devastation and animosity. Making the choice to go my own way was uncomfortable and daunting, but it was the right thing to do. There’s no use in hanging on after the expiry date.”
Building on her work in her previous project, Mexican Slang, Lee began conceptualizing Peeling in the summer of 2015, writing the songs that would make up their first EP before recruiting her bandmates and recording at Union Sound Company (Metz, Fucked Up) in December of that year. ‘7 Years of Blood,’ is a sequel of sorts to the first EP, with the songs composed shortly after the tracking of Rats In Paradise, as the band that Lee had essentially formed for the recordings began to take shape, and completed in early 2017 following a series of tour dates in the fall of last year with Preoccupations, Death Valley Girls and Muuy Biien after the band had coalesced into a formidable unit.
The EP builds on the sound of the band’s earlier release, further exploring the layered guitar textures and Lee’s bruising and often confrontational songwriting style, focusing thematically on the struggle to assert your individual agency and power.
“If you add up the average time a woman spends on her period during her life, it’s like 7 straight years,” Lee says of the EP’s title “That’s an annoying thought, but also pretty powerful. Which is what this EP is about, taking control and harnessing your individual power.”
7 Years of Blood is out May 26th via Buzz Records. It is available for preorder here.
Tracklist
1. Vulture’s game
2. Away From You
3. Rattlesnake
4. Wandering Womb
In support of the release the band will be heading out on a North American tour featuring dates with Muuy Biien, Bambara and Richard Lloyd of Television. Full details can be found below.
Tour Dates
05/25 – Montreal, QC @ L’Escogriffe
05/28 – Brooklyn, NY @ Alphaville *
05/31 – Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter ~
06/01 – Knoxville, TN @ Pilot Light %
06/02 – Nashville, TN @ High Watt %
06/05 – Dallas, TX @ Armory D.E.
06/07 – Austin, TX @ Hotel Vegas
* with Bambara
~ with Richard Lloyd (Television)
% with Muuy Biien
