Perennial is excited to share their new single “Ready! Steady! Go!” and its accompanying music video. Following the release of singles “What’s New On The Beat Scene” and “Modernism,” the track offers a vibrant preview of the band’s anticipated new album out September 18 via Ernest Jenning Record Co. (pre-order). The song channels mid-’60s Motown sparkle, vibraphones, electric organ, and fuzzed-out bass, before veering into a warped, backwards-guitar finale.
On the song, the band’s Chad Jewitt says:
“’Ready! Steady! Go!’ Is us having an absolute blast in the studio; probably both our most POP song and our most psychedelic too. We definitely had mid/late-60s Motown in mind with the vibraphones and electric organ and fuzz bass groove, then by the end you have a backwards guitar solo and wah-wah pedals showing up.”
Perennial has an extensive tour in support of Modernism with the West Coast leg kicking off on August 12 in Portland, OR at Turn! Turn! Turn!. The run will bring them to cities across the U.S., including Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Somerville, Chicago, Seattle and more. This fall, the band will continue overseas with a series of UK shows, including stops in Leeds, Liverpool, Brighton, and London. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.
Perennial is sharp, quick, ferocious, focused. Their bruising, bombastic sets come and go before you know it: all over but the sweating. 20 minute marathons, on stage and wax. On Modernism, the New England mod trio’s newest LP, that lightning-strike chic is devoted to a pocket-symphony rave-up — 10-songs built from all the keenest bits of The Who, The Blood Brothers, Otis Redding, Stereolab, MC5, Wilson Pickett, and Le Tigre. Op art to dance to. Mellotron loops bracket electric feedback squalls; freakbeat riffs tangle up beneath Stax/Volt hooks. The band’s deep, eccentric record collections, turned into a 1,200 second action painting.
Formed in 2015 in Connecticut, Perennial is Chad Jewett (electric guitar and vocals), Chelsey Hahn (electric organ and vocals), and Ceej Wolf (drums). Focusing on both unforgettable live shows — frenetic, joyful dance-punk rites of spring — and studio-as-instrument modernist recordings, the band has built a cult of dedicated international aficionados, one sticky-humid basement show at a time. Touring tirelessly, they honed their Motown-via-Dischord sound to a keen, glossy point. With their longtime producer Chris Teti (The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die), Perennial has added layer after layer to their sharp mod collage: free jazz, ambient electronica, big beat, dub, Musique concrète, all within explosive 90-second sprints.
Modernism is their best/catchiest/densest LP yet. The hooks pile high and stick fast atop dance floor strata of fuzz bass, tambourine, and Vox Continental organ jabs. Modernism marries the experimental to the ecstatic, the impressionistic to the incendiary. Available September 18th via Ernest Jenning Record Co. (US and International) and Safe Suburban Home (UK), Modernism is a new benchmark for one of punk music’s most intrepid aesthetic explorers.
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