Described as “unhealthily pessimistic,” “morbidly morose,” and “crestfallen in the downtrodden extreme,” Trevor Peach has been writing and performing music since 2004, recording mixtapes for close friends, only recently releasing his entire discography online via Bandcamp.
Well, just a few days ago he surprised us all by releasing not one, but TWO albums!
The first is very punnily-named When In Art, Make Doubt, which Trevor recorded with the Foregone Conclusions backup band. It is 13 brand-new tracks that you can (and should?) listen to the whole thing RIGHTCHEA:
The second album, Wordless Speechless Voiceless, is an anthology of music created between 2014 and 2018, remastered without lyrics. So basically Karaoke versions of FIFTY-TWO FRIKKIN’ Trevor Peach songs so that you can “entertain” your friends by singing to them. In all seriousness, though, it sometimes gets lost in all the overwrought lyrics, but listening to the instrumental versions of Trevor’s songs reminds you that he is actually a rather exceptional guitarist… when he isn’t morosely strumming the same 5 chords in the same rhythm over and over again for three minutes.
On this, the Halloweenth Day of Halloween, please partake and enjoy some delights to watch and listen to, courtesy of some awexome peoples. Try not to get so scared that you might die of scares and fears that you might die.
Greatest American homestar:
Here is pupped Homestar singing a Halloween-ish version of the best TV show theme song of ALL TIME!
Open Mike Eagle and Video Dave in #DeadAss Episode 8: Halloween Special
Open Mike Eagle (and more importantly, VIDEO DAVE) are still on an independent rap tour (or they were when this episode was made). In this very scary episode, Video Dave makes them some pizzas with a special ingredient and then go to a mall and whoops craziness!
Oh, also Mike released a brand-new, exclusive Halloween-ish song that might not be here if you’re reading this anytime in the future:
The Crazy Boy Floyds: 8-Bit Halloween
Here is perhaps the greatest Halloween EP ever released, four songs of scares and fears that you might die!
Spirit Shrine: ghostslikeshadows
Here’s another very spooky song by the very spooky Spirit Shrine!
Trevor Peach: Hallowwon’t
And here we have a very un-spooky and rather depressing song from the Lord of Emo, none other than Trevor Peach!
Nerdic Public Radio: Halloween Edition
Finally, here is an episode of Nerdic Public Radio, the very strange radio station run by very oddly-accented folks who really ultimately have no idea what they’re doing. But it’s very funny!
And that’s that. Happy Halloweens, my everyones!
P.S. Jack-o-Lanterns designed by my 3-year-old daughter.
My excellently-talented friend (since kindergarten) Geoff is an excellently-talented musician. Until recently he was the bass-playing part of Julia Massey and the Five Finger Discount (he can be heard on all of the FFD albums released up to this date). He is also the singer and 1/2 of the composers (I’m the other 1/2) of The Crazy Boy Floyds. He also produced a bunch of Trevor Peach’s recent musics. And a bunches of other stuffs.
Hey guys! Not only is Slayer an awesome company that I have loved since it’s inception, but a while back Arthur Allen started working in their marketing department and asked if I’d be willing to make a little tune for the promos of their upcoming products. Of course I said yes! And of course Arthur has done amazing things with it! Thanks for the opportunity, man! I hope I get to work with you moooore!
Watch the ‘mercial here and wissen to da musics within!
Also, that looks like a pretty kick-ass machine. If only I thought coffee had a good flavor taste instead of tasting like burnt bits you’d scrape off the bottom of an oven!
The Fourth volume of Trevor Peach’s one-song-a-week project (AKA “Squandered Promise of a Wasted Year”) has begun, and this one is a pretty awexome hum-dinger. In his previous volume he did remakes of some of his own “classic” songs. But in this volume he is going to be putting his own spin on other musicians’ songs with a series of cover songs! He’s released the track list, and it includes some delightfully surprising and bizarre choices. Here they all are (and you can listen to them all) right here:
1. Black Sparrow – J Hacha De Zola
2. Your Mother Doesn’t Love You – Jason Brunet
3. Long Way To Fall – The Electric NoNo
4. Jesus, Friend of Sinners – Joshua Stephens
5. First 48 – Chris Blount
6. Secret Squirrel – Robb Benson
7. Nightmares – Open Mike Eagle
8. Nightmares – The Hoot Hoots
9. Blueberries – Julia Massey
10. Shake – The Great UM
11. White Whale – Kid in the Attic
12. Mr. Boots – Incanus
13. Dada Pops – Chubby Mummy
Volume IV marks a musical departure from the previous three volumes as well, because they’re not being produced by Geoff B. Gibbs. They’re being produced by Vincent Fresco. That’s right: the Vincent Fresco who produced Trevor Peach’s very first EP back 12 years ago!
The first cover has already been released. You can take a wissen right here:
I’m particularly excited to see how Trevor and Vincent handle Open Mike Eagle’s hip-hop and Chubby Mummy’s general incompetence. Also, there are rumors that there might be a couple of bonus tracks that aren’t listed here. There’s some exciting things in the pipeline from Trevor Peach this summer FO SHO.
Link of the Month:
My Amazon Wish List!
That’s right! You think in this, the most wonderful time of the year, that I’d waste my one-and-only link of the month on something selfless? EFF THAT! I want you to click on this link and buy crap for me! Crass commercialism EFF-TEE-DUBYA, baby! Mwa-ha-ha-haaaaaaaa!
Album of the Month:
Cut Down the World’s Last Tree: A Trevor Peach Christmas
Trevor Peach, the world’s most depressed musician, made a Christmas album many years ago, but it was only just finally released online earlier this year! Hooray! It is mostly original songs, like “For Christmas,” which is about how Trevor’s only Christmas wish is not to have Christmas. It includes the lyrics: Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle go away.
Trevor Peach also does a cover of the classic “I Saw Three Ships,” though of course he modifies the lyrics a little bit: I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas day, on Christmas Day,
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas day in the morning.
They ran into a pier and sank,
And all were drowned, and all were drowned.
It seems a cruel and bitter fate,
But their lives were worse than their deaths were.
It’s glorious stuff.
Christmas Special of the Month:
Molly Lewis’s “Thanksgiving vs Christmas”
Seattle’s own nerdy chanteuse Molly Lewis invented a Christmas/Thanksgiving special last year and (with the help of gobs of other awesome musicians and funny folk) performed it live. This is the audio recording of that show. It’s kind of a throwback to those weird old radio variety show specials, with random people and musical acts coming in and out and doing their schtick. The songs are of a humorous bent, and many are only tenuously related to the theme of the special, especially the Vix & Tony song “Song that is definitely just about Doctor Who and not about Christmas at all.”
Trevor Peach is the world’s best worst emo musician ever. Relentlessly depressing and determinedly low-tech, his music swings around the low end of crappy and comes back as something with some semblance of brilliance. I have a complicated reaction to his music; It’s so overwhelmingly down that it makes me laugh, and so frustratingly perfect that it makes me what to punch holes in walls… in a happy way.
I went so far as to make a peppy, chiptune cover of one of his songs once many years ago. Here is the original:
And here is my cover:
A problem with Trevor Peach is that his music has never been released in any serious way. If you were lucky someone burned you a copy of a copy of a copy of a CD that someone convinced Trevor to burn at one point. But recently my lifelong friend and birthday buddy Geoff moved to Canada, where he has little to do. So he has embarked on an important musical curating project: the collection and releasing of the song stylings of Trevor Peach.
Let Geoff tell you in his own words:
I met someone in 2004. Strangely enough, I met him in a dumpster, but that’s a story for another time.
In the 11 years or so that I’ve known him, he’s been constantly making music on a shoestring budget and sending out mixed tapes to close friends, but never a mass audience. I wouldn’t say it’s my personal cup of tea, but many people seem to enjoy it.
To this end, I’ve been trying literally *for years* to help him promote his stuff. Honestly, it’s been so long in coming because he’s terribly hard to work with; moody, sad, morose, and not at all deadline oriented.
But… I have managed to curate quite a collection, and it’s all going to be shared with the world now, since I have his blessing to do so.
So, without further ado, I give you (my friends of Facebook), the one – the only – Trevor Peach:
So far, the 4 EP’s are up. Next week I hope to have the 2 LP’s newly remastered. After that, well, I have worked out a weekly visitation to see Trevor and get him to record new music that no one has heard yet. If all goes well, I’ll be able to get a song a week from him – heck, maybe I can get some guest artists to work with him, too!!
Anyway, I’m sure the people that love TP’s stuff will be excited, and I’m just happy to help the guy out!!!
So all of Trevor Peach’s (known) recordings are now up on Bandcamp for all to “enjoy.” And yesterday, the first new song since 2011 was released. It has a surprisingly well-produced sound to it (most likely due to Geoff’s influence in mixing and mastering). Partake:
Geoff promises to get one song every week out of Trevor. Let’s see if he can do it!
