Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom – A Peace Of Us
A trio composed of indie music’s foundational members – Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom – have announced the forthcoming album A Peace of Us—an LP composed of diverse holiday tunes filtered through their musical imaginations. The album will be released on November 22 via Carpark Records.
Dean & Britta, well-known from their work defining a genre with Galaxie 500 and Luna, join Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3), another bastion of indie’s collective adolescence, to bring to life a collection that draws from early ‘60s pop, garage, country, James Bond soundtracks, Christmas carols, and electronica. Dean Wareham recalls a sentiment from his DJ friend Chris: “You can experience all the emotions of Christmas through music: love and hate, joy and heartache, nostalgia, regret, anticipation, and frustration.”
Today they share the first taste of the album via their take on Willie Nelson’s “Pretty Paper” – rendered here as a duet between Britta and Sonic Boom, their pulsing synth-heavy production updating the song for a darkened nightclub rather than a bright honky tonk.
Wareham shares, “this was a hit for Roy Orbison in 1963 and it’s a pretty song but the lyrics, about a man who sits alone on the sidewalk outside a department store selling ribbons and paper, are sad.
“and in the midst of the laughter, he cries.”
Britta arranged this in the style of our synth-heavy score for the Noah Baumbach / Greta Gerwig film Mistress America.”
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