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- Summary: The debut release for Mike Donovan's mew music project was produced by Ty Segall.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Jan 4, 2016Peacers is half-an-hour of fun, guitar-driven weirdness, and a throwback to the type of music that Drag City used to put out in their mail-order days.
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UncutJul 23, 2015Donovan's songs are still queerly wired, taking unexpected detours, blasting out into destructo-guitar solos, stomping T. Rex blues, and drenching acoustic guitar in slapback echo and ghostly vox. [Aug 2015, p.77]
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MagnetAug 12, 2015The sound here is languid and lo-fi, even when it's rocking. [No. 123, p.61]
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Jul 23, 2015Not everything on Peacers works, but when it does, it’s the sonic equivalent of driving along a beach with a summer breeze rushing right through you.
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Jul 23, 2015It’s a promising debut from a musician spreading his wings and continuing to create his own little subculture, one informed by the past but brightening up the future.
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Jul 23, 2015Where Donovan really soars is the quieter moments on the record.
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Jul 23, 2015It's not exactly Sic Alps Mk. II, but there are some clear similarities. The record's eerie psychedelic pop strikes a similar balance of order and chaos, with songs that rev up only to be subverted by detours into dissonance and static.