After a couple self-released full-lengths (The Deeper You Get, Branded Heart) and an EP on Catdolls Records (Swoon), Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter Peg Simone has managed to find herself in the company of some of the Chocolate Grinder’s favorite current musical heroes — Oren Ambarchi, Rhys Chatham, John Fahey, Tony Conrad, Fennesz, Jon Mueller, Thurston Moore, Stephen O’Malley — as she’ll be releasing her new album, Secrets from the Storm, on Table of the Elements/Radium. The track above, “Oh Holy Night,” sees Simone in a unique, unsettling collaboration with writer/poet Holly Anderson, who was a lyricist for Mission of Burma and Consonant. Anderson also supplies lyrics for two other Simone tracks, “Boilermakers” and “1927.”
Secrets from the Storm is due May 25. You can download “Oh Holy Night” here.
• Peg Simone: http://pegsimone.com
• Radium/Table of the Elements: http://www.tableoftheelements.com
[Photo: Jonathan Kane]
