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Dream gaze rock outfit Pencey Sloe (Diane Pellotieri - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards and Clément Hateau - drums, bass, keyboards) has just unveiled a new single/video for the track "The Run I. & II. (feat. Stéphane Paut & Justin K. Broadrick)". The two combined tracks are taken from the upcoming sophomore full-length, Neglect, scheduled for release on 19 August.
Pencey Sloe's vocalist and guitarist Diane Pellotieri comments: "The first part of the song, 'The Run I.' speaks of self-love, the one that makes us doubt, the one for which we constantly fight to achieve it. In the second chapter, 'The Run II.', we glimpse a way to find serenity, but you have to run to get to the light, otherwise all that scares catches up with you."
Who am I? It is the essential question that Pencey Sloe explores in their sophomore full-length Neglect. The Parisian dream gaze rockers have dedicated their entire new album to the theme of identity.
While a founding member, singer, and guitarist Diane Pellotieri is the main songwriter for Pencey Sloe, her collaboration with a new drummer and percussionist, Clément Hateau, has overall been much closer than with the previous line-up of the band. The result of this joining is a more mature and complex sound. Although the French continue on their path of cinematic soundscapes and beautiful psychedelic colours, their occasional drifting into darker spheres and the perfect balance between Diane's vocals and meandering guitar textures create a sonic world of their design.
Pencey Sloe was conceived out of a conversation between Diane and her, at the time, fellow musicians in 2017. The name was partly inspired by J. D. Salinger's famous "The Catcher in the Rye" as Diane drew parallels between her music and the novel's fluid shifts from dark to light, distress, and sadness to the burlesque and mysterious. In the same year as the band's inception, a 5-track eponymous EP was self-released in 2017, which led to a record deal that Pencey Sloe inked with Prophecy, and its acclaimed debut album, Don't Believe, Watch Out, appeared via the label in 2019. Without the possibility to perform live these last two years, Diane decided to focus on creating new material.
And now, "The Run I. & II. (feat. Stéphane Paut & Justin K. Broadrick)" is here. Link
Neglect tracklist:
01. What They Need
02. Smile to Zero
03. Neglect
04. Mirror Rorrim
05. Sigh
06. The Run I.
07. The Run II.
08. Brutal in Red
09. Reversed Backwards
10. Inner
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