Homeshake - Under the Weather (Grey Vinyl) - VINYL LP

Unlike most of us, Peter Sagar - also known as Homeshake - was staying at home a lot, long before the pandemic. Sagar wrote the majority of his fifth studio album, Under the Weather, in 2019, when he was going through a long, unrelenting period of sadness. InchI was in a deep, deep depression,Inch he recalls of that time period now. InchTours were breaking me. It was awful.Inch Sagar and his partner were living in Montreal and while everyone was out being social, he was inside listening to ambient music, binging Star Trek, and writing songs. (Sound familiar?) InchIt was a bit of a dark pit,Inch he says. InchThat's kind of what the whole album is about.InchUnder the Weather follows Sagar's life and the depression that consumed him in 2019 - after a brief album intro, it jumps right into InchFeel Better,Inch a reflection on attempting to buck up when the weather outside is grim. The album is hazy and moody, the pace slow as syrup, and from beginning to end, a fog falls over every synth and guitar line. In InchInaminit,Inch Sagar cancels plans when he's feeling low; the closing track, InchTenterhooks,Inch sees Sagar's deliverance into the depths of despair InchFeel myself drying up / feel myself turn into dust,Inch he sings over a funhouse mirror synth. InchOftentimes when you're in a dark place, you're supposed to journal and that helps the pressure,Inch Sagar says. InchFor me, it always found it's way into the music.InchCapturing the cloudy sound of a depressive funk was no simple feat, especially in the headspace Sagar was in for over a year. For that reason, he decided to enlist his friend, Jerry Paper's Lucas Nathan, to help with production on the record. Having Nathan contribute helped Sagar dial back some of Inchdry, pristine digital soundInch that defined his fourth studio album, Helium, and add back personal analog touches that drew people to the Homeshake pr