{"title":"Homeshake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomeshake is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter who formed in 2013. With a unique blend of lo-fi indie pop and R\u0026amp;B influences, *Homeshake* has gained a dedicated following for his dreamy and introspective sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar to artists such as Mild High Club, Yellow Days, and Connan Mockasin, *Homeshake* creates music that transports listeners into a hazy and nostalgic atmosphere. His smooth vocals and laid-back instrumentals make for the perfect soundtrack to unwind and relax.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince his debut, *Homeshake* has released several critically acclaimed albums that have solidified his place in the indie music scene. Fans of mellow vibes and soulful melodies will find themselves captivated by *Homeshake's* enchanting soundscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"horsie","title":"Horsie","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing March's \u003ci\u003eCD Wallet\u003c\/i\u003e, Homeshake presents his second album of 2024, \u003ci\u003eHorsie\u003c\/i\u003e. Written and recorded at his home studio in Toronto, it explores Sagar’s complicated feelings about returning to live performance. Deepening his relationship to loneliness and anxiety, the record examines those themes in the context of touring. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHorsie employs various textures influenced by artists like Four Tet and My Bloody Valentine, the rhythmic forms of D’Angelo and Sade, and moments of ambient Americana found in the works of Ry Cooder. The cornerstone pieces of gear used were an Ensoniq EPS and Roland Juno 60, though the album also employs a great deal of electric guitar, along with his beloved SP-404. He maintains a philosophy of “less is more,” finding the simplest route from one point to another. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomeshake, the musical project of Peter Sagar, is an expression of adjustment and contortion within the world as he experiences it and the sounds he wants to hear in it. Hallucinatory and heartbreaking in its cries for connection, Sagar’s sound is often imitated but has proven to be entirely his own; textural and profound, uniquely honoring his diverse influences but adrift within its own transportive imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SHHOAMKEE Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50433171423563,"sku":"2197750","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/HOMESHAKE_-_Horsie_-_cover_1_cd99e9f6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726877583"},{"product_id":"fresh-air-1","title":"Fresh Air","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in the bleak isolation of the secluded prairie city of Edmonton, Canada, Homeshake's Peter Sagar worked with friends in a number of local bands before picking up and moving to Montreal in 2011 to begin recording under the Homeshake moniker. Following two self-released cassettes (The Homeshake Tapes and Dynamic Meditation) and two acclaimed full lengths (\u003ci\u003eIn The Shower and Midnight Snack\u003c\/i\u003e), Sagar cracks a window open with his third album for Sinderlyn - \u003ci\u003eFresh Air.\u003c\/i\u003e Started immediately following the recording of \u003ci\u003eMidnight Snack, Fresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e continues Sagar’s exploration of dreamy, downtempo bedroom R\u0026amp;B and draws inspiration from such disparate artists like Sade, The Band, Broadcast, Prince, and Angelo Badalamenti. As the title \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e suggests, Sagar’s songs were created to clear his listeners’ minds of negativity. Full of smokey, laid back love songs and airy productions, Sagar’s decidedly stoned sound is a breath of fresh air.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sinderlyn","offers":[{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":50466964242763,"sku":"2007123","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/517b4ef9-de06-4c8a-9cfa-c7900fcb0205_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727333200"},{"product_id":"midnight-snack","title":"Midnight Snack","description":"\u003cp\u003eHomeshake is the pseudonym and solo project of Edmonton-born, Montreal-based musician Peter Sagar. As a follow up to his 2014 debut, 'In the Shower', Homeshake releases his sophomore effort 'Midnight Snack'! This new record explores Sagar's dizzying time on the road as touring guitarist with Mac DeMarco, reflecting on the loneliness that plagued him towards the end of his run, and the longing for life back home in Montreal. When the mounting pressures of this lifestyle began to take a toll, Sagar left the band to focus on his own music and to rebuild the infrastructure of his life. While many of the new tracks meander through anxiety and despair, it is also a witness to a return to safety. 'Midnight Snack' was recorded this past winter with Jackson Mac- Intosh at the Drones club in Montreal. Musically this time around, Sagar trades in his guitar for synthesizers and a drum machine, developing vocal arrangements from the loops he created for his solo set. He pulled influence from house pioneers like Chipe E and Mr. Fingers as well as Japanese pop starlets like Chiemi Manabe, slowing down the tempo with his own homemade drowsiness. The resulting collection is an eclectic tangle of desolation and comfort steeped in an everlasting reverence of D'Angelo and R Kelly. There is a reoccuring them for Sagar, of pulling inward throughout the record. He casts a wide net and fills it with a multitude of musical influences and international tour dates then slows it down a few tempos and builds something humble around it. Throughout the record he peepers in a deep appreciation for the meals prepared by his girlfriend Salina and the simple pleasure of a midnight snack before curling up in bed next to th person you love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sinderlyn","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50498615345483,"sku":"392848","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50498615542091,"sku":"392847","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/635c4ff5-1e34-4f6b-a1de-1dfc615d023a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727751132"},{"product_id":"helium","title":"Helium","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen you walk alone, you’re never lost. At least, that’s the operating principle behind Homeshake, the recording project of Peter Sagar. Over his first three albums, Sagar followed his own idiosyncratic vision, a journey that’s taken him from sturdy guitar-based indie-pop to, on 2017’s \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e, a bleary-eyed take on lo-fi R\u0026amp;B. Now, with \u003ci\u003eHelium\u003c\/i\u003e, Sagar is putting down roots in aesthetic territory all his own. Landscape that he once viewed from a distance now forms the bedrock of his sound, and from here, he looks back out at the world as if through a light fog, composing songs that feel grounded and intimate, even as they explore a dispersed feeling of isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt’s a feeling that comes through not only in the gauziness of the production, but also in the vulnerability of the songs themselves. Sagar began writing \u003ci\u003eHelium\u003c\/i\u003e shortly after completing \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e, and in the middle of what he calls a “binge” reading of Haruki Murakami. It’s not hard to picture the narrator of these songs as a distinctly Murakamian character: He moves through time by himself, bemused by and insulated from a world he doesn’t quite seem to have been made for. Everyone Sagar encounters here — including himself — seems to be a step removed from present reality, whether by technology (\u003ci\u003eAnything At All\u003c\/i\u003e), solitude (\u003ci\u003eJust Like My\u003c\/i\u003e), or sweet fantasy (\u003ci\u003eLike Mariah\u003c\/i\u003e). The record is stitched together by a series of instrumental interludes, synthesizer explorations whose haziness adds to the suspicion that this is all an uncanny dream. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich isn’t to say that Sagar is unmoored in his own world. In fact, much of \u003ci\u003eHelium\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of what he calls “a much clearer mental state” than the one he’d experienced shortly following \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e’s completion. “I had a better idea of the sound that was working for this record and what it was turning into as I was writing the songs,” he says. That’s owing in part to the album’s genesis. Where his previous three records were recorded directly to one-inch tape in a local studio, \u003ci\u003eHelium\u003c\/i\u003e was recorded and mixed by Sagar alone in his apartment in Montreal’s Little Italy neighborhood between April and June of this year. Freed of the rigid editing process he’d endured before, he was able to lose himself in pursuit of tone and texture. “I didn’t have to book time, compete for good hours, wait on availability. I did a lot of it at home in the middle of the night,” he says. “It made me get more obsessive about details.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA budding interest in ambient and experimental music — particularly Visible Cloaks, DJs Paypal and Rashad, and Jlin — pushed him to tinker with the micro-sounds that surround the songs here. It’s a process he found creatively invigorating; even the tinkling boom-bap of Young Thug informs \u003ci\u003eAll Night Long\u003c\/i\u003e. It’s a far cry from the chorus-laden guitars of his earlier work. “Ever since I started introducing synthesizers into my music, I’ve gotten more interested in texture,” he says. “I’d hit a creative dead end [with guitars], so synths took over.” The warm chords of a Roland Juno 60 form the album’s base, and gave him a clean palette with which to work. “No tape hiss, no humming power outlets and shitty mixing boards,” as he puts it. “Everything just came out nice and pure.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill, for all the growth it demonstrates, \u003ci\u003eHelium\u003c\/i\u003e is at its core a singer-songwriter’s record made by someone who doesn’t feel beholden to any particular set of sounds, textures, or instruments to get his point across. In that sense, it feels closer to the bone, at once assured of its vision and remarkably vulnerable. It’s perhaps our purest view yet of Homeshake’s home country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Black Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP+ - Limited Light Blue Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sinderlyn","offers":[{"title":"LP.","offer_id":50498663481675,"sku":"1050828","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50498663055691,"sku":"1050827","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/25e6b1b2-00d9-43d6-9e15-46b4afac619c_thumbnail_4096.png?v=1727752726"},{"product_id":"under-the-weather","title":"Under the Weather","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Sagar, also known as Homeshake, wrote the majority of his fifth studio album \u003ci\u003eUnder the Weather\u003c\/i\u003e in 2019, when he was going through a long, unrelenting period of sadness. Sagar and his partner were living in Montreal, and while everyone was out being social, he was inside listening to ambient music, binging Star Trek, and writing songs. (Sound familiar?)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder the Weather\u003c\/i\u003e is hazy and moody, the pace slow as syrup, and from beginning to end, a fog falls over every synth and guitar line. “Often times when you’re in a dark place, you’re supposed to journal and that helps release the pressure,” Sagar says. “For me, it always found its way into the music.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCapturing the cloudy sound of a depressive funk was no simple feat, especially in the headspace Sagar was in for over a year. For that reason, he decided to enlist his friend, Jerry Paper’s Lucas Nathan, to help with production on the record. Having Nathan contribute helped Sagar dial back some of the “dry, pristine digital sound” that defined his fourth studio album, \u003ci\u003eHelium\u003c\/i\u003e, and add back personal analog touches that drew people to the Homeshake project in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Sagar readies for the album’s release, the record he wrote about feeling isolated, alone, and despondent has begun to seem eerily prescient. “I’ve been writing about feeling isolated my whole life,” he says —but with age, he has come to understand them better. “I had a fairly clear idea what the album was going to be like based on where I was emotionally at the time,” he says about \u003ci\u003eUnder the Weather\u003c\/i\u003e. “I just try to make music that is honest about how I’m feeling.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sinderlyn","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP","offer_id":50500873290059,"sku":"1126203","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50500868473163,"sku":"1126201","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50500870275403,"sku":"1126202","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c957642e-f00d-4c40-8f33-53e507d5d4e0_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727780227"},{"product_id":"in-the-shower-su","title":"In the Shower","description":"\u003cp\u003eHomeshake's album \"In the Shower\" was released by Sinderlyn \/ Cargo and offers a unique blend of lo-fi indie rock and dreamy R\u0026amp;B.; The album showcases Homeshake's signature sound, characterized by smooth vocals, laid-back grooves, and hazy production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith tracks like \"Heat,\" \"Making a Fool of You,\" and \"She Can't Leave Me Here Alone Tonight,\" In the Shower takes listeners on a journey through introspective lyrics and infectious melodies. The songs effortlessly combine elements of funk, soul, and electronic music, creating a captivating sonic experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album's production is intimate yet intricate, with layers of synths, guitars, and drum machines weaving together to form a lush soundscape. Homeshake's attention to detail is evident in every track, from the subtle harmonies to the hypnotic rhythms that invite listeners to immerse themselves in the music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you're looking for laid-back tunes to unwind to or catchy hooks to dance along with, \"In the Shower\" has something for everyone. Homeshake's musical prowess shines through in this album, making it a must-have for fans of alternative music seeking something fresh and innovative.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sinderlyn","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":52753284792651,"sku":"R2664-6984","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0869261000064-0600px-001.jpg?v=1752052046"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_1d76d74a_thumbnail_4096_11b4892e-69b0-466e-810d-e4158a649a93.jpg?v=1726877562","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/homeshake.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}