Singer/songwriter Peter Stone soothes the ears and stirs the center on their delicate and mild “Cogs,” a radiant, dreamy indie people music exploring love, connection, and intimacy.
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Sure, I’m in love with everybody…
Listening to Peter Stone’s newest songs is like slipping out of the current and right into a dream: Delicate and mild, the singer/songwriter weaves heat textures collectively round a young vocal efficiency in “Cogs,” a superbly introspective and radiantly uncooked exploration of affection and connection.
the cushions on my handlebars
are redder than the deepest daybreak
me, Matt and Em, we play fake
out within the woods we discover a wand
Hermione and the Falcon
we supply on, we open up
in Schaeffer Park, climb the fence to the yard
Independently launched as a double single with the music “Twigs” in late November, “Cogs” is the proper soothing soundtrack to any and each afternoon. Peter Stone’s first launch of 2022 feels as intimate and hushed because it does expansive and resounding: The singer/songwriter delves deep into their depths with grace and attraction, their voice glistening in a pool of sunshine acoustic guitar and candy, lilting piano.
No stranger to Atwood Journal, Stone is a co-founder and former guitarist of New England-born, LA-based indie rock band The Rare Occasions; songs that includes Stone’s guitar and songwriting contributions have been streamed over 300 million occasions worldwide.
But as we have previously written, Peter Stone has discovered their voice as a solo singer/songwriter.
Stone launched their solo artistry in mid-2020 with “Fells Reservoir,” evoking photographs of idyllic landscapes alongside a “love story tinged with summer time tones,” as Atwood writer Alicia Bugallo put it. “Impressed by nature and locations that the artist holds near their coronary heart, it displays Stone’s journey that has taken them from Boston to Oregon to Los Angeles, and formed their private tackle the American songwriting custom.”
The following two years have seen Stone including to their oeuvre one monitor at a time by what one might ostensibly name a busy singles marketing campaign; by the tip of 2021, that they had ten tracks to their identify, with their newest double-single upping the ante to 12.
For all their inventive progress in a comparatively brief time span, “Cogs” is in so some ways the quintessential Peter Stone music: An acoustic, dreamy marvel dwelling in an area of intimacy, love, and serene contemplation, the monitor captures every thing we’ve come to understand about Stone’s nascent artistry, whereas nonetheless discovering them evolving as a songwriter and storyteller.
now I’m driving down Jonestown
discovering out how Pleasure Sighs sounds
steal away the afternoon
in my nursery themed bed room
sky painted on the ceiling
glow at the hours of darkness pentagrams within the night
delicate, she’s revealing
lunar lover kissing me so sweetly
I’m misplaced in a rabbit gap
pretty bunny she is operating so speedily
Produced by Noah Weinman (aka Runnner, who additionally produces for Skullcrusher), “Cogs” has no refrain; as an alternative, the monitor regularly grows in measurement and stature, evolving from a softly stirring whisper into a chic, flippantly ethereal indie people enchantment.
and I’m studying to be alone
I’m studying to be alone
as a result of we’re on their lonesome
we’re just one
“The lyrics in ‘Cogs,’ verse by verse, stem from a special time interval in life,” Stone tells Atwood Journal. “From my childhood, to my teen years, to my mid twenties. Like lots of songs I write, it’s swirling round my relationships with others, and the way it’s to like and be cherished in numerous totally different situations. Love with childhood buddies, and in a while with romantic companions. Love with trusty automobiles and childhood heroes. With beloved forest landscapes and well-traveled routes and a steep paved avenue that we launched ourselves down as children. Love with the sensation of falling in love itself! Love with some sort of divine spirit that traces its winding path by every of us and which I really feel connects us.”
“Typically our relating leaves us feeling so euphoric and holy and brilliant, it’s laborious to recollect feeling another means. Different occasions {our relationships} with how we spend our time, with our family members, with locations, all of those – can go away us feeling so hole and aimless and confused. It’s bridging this hole and discovering a stability of those extremes that I goal to cope with in ‘Cogs.’ Reconciling the sensation of being a damaged, wasted little bit of equipment with the sense that we’re all facets of all-encompassing sacred creation.”
and we’re misplaced in a labyrinth
a laurel forest forcing you to repair
the chasm beckoning
the countless drop the wind is dashing in
bombing beacon hill
pace my purple jeep on the freeway to nowhere
she asks me “are we in love?”
and I stated “sure my darling, I’m in love with each one”
Written throughout a songwriting workshop led by the singular Molly Sarlé (solo artist and member of folks group Mountain Man, with an in depth CV that features Flock of Dimes and extra), “Cogs” actually is a phenomenal immersion into Peter Stone’s perspective and a reintroduction to their world. Glimmering with a heat, radiant gentle, it’s the sort of music that evokes all who hear – injecting only a little bit of magic into our world, irrespective of the place we’re or what we’re going by on the time. Really feel the love and bask within the glow of this beautiful reflective reverie, out wherever you get your music.
and I do know that falling’s enjoyable
sure I do know that falling’s enjoyable
sure I’m in love with everybody
and countless braiding god
intertwining data
sure we’re empty damaged cogs
holy vessels filled with blood
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