PEGGY SUE: FOSSILS AND OTHER PHANTOMS

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Two voices are better than one – or so goes the mantra of believers in the cult of Peggy Sue. Best friends and creative compatriots Katy Young and Rosa Slade, along with drummer Olly Joyce, bob and weave their soulful, R&B-ready voices in and out of complex vocal interplay achieving sonic qualities all their own. A folk power trio of sorts, Katy, Rosa and Olly blend minimalist drums, acoustic guitars, accordion and strings into a soul-folk shotgun blast that is much more than the sum of its parts. Emotionally, the album centers on the darker side of love, with sharp-penned one liners smoldering like embers ignited by the breath of Klaw and Rex’s voice and furious strumming. A folk-punk wake-up call and their debut full length, Fossils and Other Phantoms signals Peggy Sue as one of the UK’s most promising imports.

With its kitchen sink approach to making music and off-kilter duets, Brighton UK duo Peggy Sue’s first full length release Fossils and Other Phantoms is a record to satisfy anyone’s gypsy wanderlust.
Following in the anti-folk tradition, Fossils and Other Phantoms explores delicate and dark themes of self-worth, regret, longing—the kind of melancholy that creeps into your bones in the middle of the night well after a breakup or the death of a loved one—all riding over drummer Olly’s urgent blasts of percussion and the firework pop of Rosa and Katy’s searing vocals.

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“There’s kind of theme that runs throughout the album, because it was written over one period of time,” Rosa said. “The process of writing songs is very therapeutic. It usually tends to come at a time when you need the outlet for something … There’s quite a lot about what remains after something’s ended and … absences that still occupy spaces and remnants of things that have passed.”



CATCH PEGGY SUE ON TOUR

June 9 @ Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia, PA
June 10 @ Piano’s in NYC
June 11 @ Paradise in Boston, MA
June 12 @ Le Divan Orange in Montreal
June 13 @ Sneaky Dees in Toronto
June 14 @ Schuba’s in Chicago IL
June 20 @ Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR
June 21 @ Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco CA
June 22 @ Spaceland in Los Angeles CA

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