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Produced by the acclaimed Bartees Strange, Pegg features key collaborator Fusilier and an extended cast familiar to fans of a cross-genre array of projects, including Van Dyke Parks, Buke and Gase, and Standing on the Corner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Is Not Music","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50507261083979,"sku":"2211370","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Red LP","offer_id":50507261149515,"sku":"2213844","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_c7a7a27f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727844797"},{"product_id":"ambush","title":"Ambush","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt’s only at the victorious closer “Hello,” a song that serves as summary and introduction, where Fusilier meets us with the prescript of his debut album \u003ci\u003eAmbush\u003c\/i\u003e: “When it eats me up, don’t be mad ‘cause I’m finally free.” For Fusilier (that’s fyoo·suh·leer), \u003ci\u003eAmbush\u003c\/i\u003e is his maternal guide to fighting and loving in the shadow of defeat, its title taken from his mother’s maiden name as much as the act of surprise. 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Throughout, Fusilier triangulates influences of dance music, turn of the century rock, and southern hip-hop to produce a sound that’s as politically urgent as it is singularly fun. “When I started \u003ci\u003eAmbush\u003c\/i\u003e I thought it was something I was doing—bombarding the world with a bunch of world-changing songs,” Fusilier laughs.. “The more I thought about it and fleshed it out, the more I realized that it was something being done to me everyday, from seemingly innocent advertisements to full-on macro aggressions.” It’s this fascination with a sense of safety—both real and imagined—that allows Fusilier to create songs that are fortified like a shield. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmbush\u003c\/i\u003e is Fusilier’s most collaborative project to date, with many folks contributing to production and performance, including Carlos Hernandez (Carlos Truly), Teeny Lieberson (Sharon Van Etten \u0026amp; The Attachment Theory), and Vishal Nayak (Nick Hakim). 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With vocals and piano from the former and string arrangements for a quintet written by the latter, its existence is a product of a symbiotic relationship: each half improving the other, trusting the process, and reaping the rewards. A towering and wonderful three-song suite as puzzling as its creators. Thirteen-minute opener “Baseball Season” will confound anyone lucky to have experienced Pegg’s self-titled album from 2024, and what Gold Flake Paint described as its “classic-NYC-indie-rock heartbeat.” The first movement serves as a playful dance between vocals and strings, nothing more, with the violins curling upwards at the same time Duell sings “now” during “I ain’t gonna be tarred and feathered nowwwww \/ That’s your job, honey!” Meanwhile, Johnson’s treatments to the mix become more pronounced, eventually giving way to an ethereal second movement, equally pastoral and post-apocalyptic. Van Dyke Parks’ percussive arrangements on “Madre de Dios” blur the lines between classical and showtune, with Duell bridging the gap at “I know it feels like a big down.” “No Dice” is the sole composition to have seen the light of day before on Pegg’s self-titled 2024 debut, but only its psychedelia remains on Presque Tout, greatly reimagined from soulful rocker to baroque balladry. “What we created was a new thing altogether,” says Duell. “Some kind of American alchemical glam decay that means something significant but we don’t know what. 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