21 February 2006

Peasant

Peasant writes beautiful, delicate, catchy, folk-pop. Think of songs by The Kinks or Paul Simon or certain songs by The Beatles...from the Peasant bio:

"I created Peasant after hearing a John Lennon song called 'working class hero' and deciding I wasn't doing this for myself. I've been writing songs on the guitar since I was 14 but I only got serious about it last summer. I took a trip around the country in my car and played a bunch of shows and open mics, i saw the world from a million different angles and decided that I had to be a musician, and I had to work hard at it. I am now 20 years old and I live in Doylestown, PA. I spend all the time I can writing songs on my guitar and adding other instruments to them in my make-shift studio. Music is first and foremost a passion of mine that I've felt drawn to since I was 7 or 8 years old, singing to myself in the woods outside my family's home in Bucks County, PA. Naturally, I've been into traditional folk styles, from Guthrie to Dylan, and I definitely love the experimental style of the late Beatles."
You can continue reading more on Peasant's MySpace site. I've selected the two songs by Peasant I like the most to share here on EAR FARM but overall I'm kinda totally partial to "Icy Deep". I can hear the Beatles ("Blackbird"-ish) influence in the guitar on this song but what I adore is just the overall sound and feel of the song. The delicate melancholy and (great) lyrics really resonate with me, in fact I think this song would be perfect for the next Wes Anderson movie. It's a perfectly short song that makes me want to hear it again as soon as it ends and the other song posted here, "Joanna" is just as good (if not better) and stands out with it's sweet vocals and hush-quiet hand claps. You'll be singing along in whispers in no time.

Read what Said the Gramaphone had to say about "Joanna".

Listen:
"Icy Deep"
"Joanna"

See Peasant live TONIGHT, and next Tuesday at 9:45pm at Sin-é bar here in NYC...for FREE. Check out Peasant's MySpace site for other live dates.

8 comments:

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Montag said...

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Regards,

A.

c2much said...

cool blog, wish I was musically gifted

Mauro said...

Buona musica quella dei Guns'n roses.

Ciao Mauro.

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Leesa said...

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Anonymous said...

hey wow, thanks for the awesome response folks, and thanks matt for posting this wonderful and kind blog, hope to see some of you in NYC next tuesday, and stay in touch via myspace =D.

-Damien aka Peasant