Peel Dream Magazine

Peel Dream Magazine - Pad

Released 7th October 2022. With his third album as Peel Dream Magazine, Joseph Stevens beckons yo...

Released 7th October 2022. With his third album as Peel Dream Magazine, Joseph Stevens beckons you toward a fabulist, zig-zag world entirely of his own design. On ‘Pad’, he eschews the fuzzy glories of his indie pop past – vibraphone trembles while chamber strings take center stage. The curtains lift to reveal banjo. Chimes. Farfisa. And as he lets out a moan atop the album’s title track, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary performance. A conceptual work about losing oneself when all th...