The track in ques­tion is WMG/WMD – a remix by David Holmes, with that riff giv­en a scuzzy qual­i­ty, com­bin­ing with Peter Per­ret­t’s dis­tinc­tive care­worn and vul­ner­a­ble vocals.

At the end of last year, Peter Per­rett released The Cleans­ing – his third album for Domi­no which fea­tured John­ny Marr, Fontaines D.C.’s Car­los O’Connell and Tom Coll, Bob­by Gille­spie, Dream Wife gui­tarist Alice Go as well as his sons Jamie (gui­tar / pro­duc­tion) and Peter Jr (bass) plus mem­bers of his live band.
 
The orig­i­nal track was named after a pulp nov­el fea­tured in Kurt Vonnegut’s nov­el Moth­er Night, and was writ­ten after Per­rett played a solo show in Norway’s Arc­tic Cir­cle, a region which infa­mous­ly held witch tri­als in the 17th cen­tu­ry: “It made me think about how soci­ety has treat­ed any female that doesn’t con­form,” says Perrett.

The Cleans­ing is an ambi­tious dou­ble album com­pris­ing 20 songs. Perrett’s unique­ly nar­cot­ic and allur­ing melodies touch on themes of art, addic­tion, age­ing, social media and witch tri­als amongst oth­ers. “I know some of the sub­ject mat­ter is death, sui­cide and depres­sion,” Per­rett notes, “but I feel there is an uplift­ing atmos­phere to the album, because I’m obvi­ous­ly enjoy­ing recog­nis­ing what is going on around me.”
 
“I feel that, the old­er you get, the more reflec­tive you get,” Per­rett says. “I’d always been flip­pant about the way I approached life, only liv­ing in the moment, but then you start to look back at the choic­es made. I want­ed to be more focused about what I want­ed to say. I’m still writ­ing about love and the human con­di­tion, but per­haps more sen­ti­men­tal, and less abject cyn­i­cism, than usu­al. I also am more focused about the music. Before, I’d put down two gui­tars, bass and drums, and that was the song: I didn’t give the process much thought. But then we start­ed open­ing things up.”
 
Upcom­ing live dates Tick­ets
Wed 1st Octo­ber – Wedge­wood Rooms, Portsmouth
Fri 3rd Octo­ber – The Globe, Cardiff
Sun 5th Octo­ber – The Sug­armill, Stoke
Mon 6th Octo­ber – Bru­denell Social Club, Leeds
Tues 7th Octo­ber – The Social, Hull
Thurs 9th Octo­ber – The Grove, New­cas­tle
Sat 11th Octo­ber – Cabaret Voltaire, Edin­burgh
Sun 12th Octo­ber – Boot­leg Social, Black­pool
Fri 24th Octo­ber – Scala, London

Peter Per­rett The Cleans­ing is avail­able on Dom­Mart – exclu­sive red dou­ble vinyl with exclu­sive print, stan­dard dou­ble vinyl, CD
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