Listening to anything by Pete International Airport always feels akin to wading out into some dark, viscous waters, the music evoking the same sensation of being pulled into an immersive, perhaps even claustrophobic, sonic realm, all of which I mean in the most positive of ways. Such a sonic world shuts out the light from the outside, fully engages the listener, and draws them into its own kaleidoscopic and slightly lysergic sonic realm. Engaging and disorientating in equal measures.
And “Sea of Eyes,” the first taste of the EP of the same name, is a perfect example of that world. With Alexander Hackett of Montreal dream-gaze outfit Pang Attack covering vocal duties, The Dandy Warhol’s man, Peter G. Holmström, sets about weaving together Cure-esque basslines, drifting atmospherics, and the musical equivalent of patchouli-scented sonic smog, in equal parts sweet and musky, obscuring and enligfhtening. He gathers psychedelic vibes, nostalgic hauntologies and shoegazing densities, beats that seem more industrial than musical and more machine than man. He lays it all out like a rich tapestry enveloping and invading all that it falls across.
Pete International Airport’s music is less a creative product and more a state of mind. It is less a commercial endeavour and more a sonic compulsion. It is less about giving the audience what they want or even what they think they want and all about giving them what they didn’t know they needed in their lives.
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