The second single from Peel Dream Magazine’s forthcoming album “Rose Main Reading Room”, “Wish You Well” is just as intoxicating as “Lie in the Gutter” was earlier this summer. It’s as soothing as a balm, but its lyrics gnaw at something far more mournful—climbing social ladders and the “eat or be eaten” mentality thrown onto us by capitalism. “Netherworld destroyer, leave it at the foyer,” Olivia Bubaka Black sings. “I was sent to bore you, obviously. Get yourself a piece, a brand new kill to feast.” Multi-instrumentalist Ian Gibbs fill the Peel Dream Magazine sound palette with gauzy, cosmic electronica that meanders like a krautrock opera, while Joe Stevens and Black repeart “I wish, I wish, I wish you were well” over and over until it becomes a hypnosis trick. “Wish You Well” is lush and commanding, offering you a conscious lullaby that has two feet in the door of unrest always
,“Rose Main Reading Room“, is out September 4th via Topshelf Records!
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