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Homeshake announces new album 'CD Wallet' out March 8th + lead single ‘CD Wallet'
11 February 2024
Today, HOMESHAKE — the long-running solo project of Toronto-based musician Peter Sagar — announces his new album, CD Wallet, out March 8th via SHHOAMKEE, and shares a video for the lead single, “CD Wallet.” Written and recorded over a majority of 2023 at Peter’s home studio in Toronto, CD Wallet is a record about his hometown of Edmonton, memories of growing up, and the feeling of returning years later. Peter explains how the album was “made in a heavy, straightforward indie rock style to impress my childhood self” and addresses feelings of nostalgia and the trappings one finds themselves in when yearning for years past.
The video for “CD Wallet” was shot by Jim Larson in Edmonton and features clips of Peter traveling through his childhood home, visiting places he hasn’t seen since moving away over a decade earlier. It’s an homage to feeling alien in a place you haven’t lived in, but still know where everything is and how to get there.
CD Wallet also explores Peter’s early fascination with guitar music: “Wake up, grandma why don’t you put on a little makeup,” or so he thought the lyrics went to “Chop Suey!” by System of a Down. Sagar was flabbergasted; he sat, mouth open, with a copy of Guitar World magazine open to the tablature of “Chop Suey!” Reading the fine print with a magnifying glass completely stunned, knocked flat onto his back, he learned a guitar can be tuned much lower than he had expected! Drop C in fact. A tuning he uses to this day. An artist and an album were born.
CD Wallet is the sixth HOMESHAKE full-length album and was mastered by Josh Bonati. “Early” from 2019’s Helium was featured in the fifth episode of HBO’s How To with John Wilson in 2020. Following 2021's Under The Weather, HOMESHAKE toured extensively across North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2022, he released Pareidolia Catalog, a six-volume, 126-track instrumental mixtape, accompanied by a collaborative cassette box set and t-shirt with Brain Dead. That same year, HOMESHAKE co-wrote and featured on Eyedress' “Spaghetti,” one of his first collaborations since "Love Is Only a Feeling" with Joey Bada$$ in 2017. There will also be new music from HOMESHAKE forthcoming in 2024.
CD Wallet Tracklist:
1. Frayed
2. Letting Go
3. Smoke
4. Kitty
5. Basement
6. CD Wallet
7. Penciled In
8. Mirror
9. Listerine
The video for “CD Wallet” was shot by Jim Larson in Edmonton and features clips of Peter traveling through his childhood home, visiting places he hasn’t seen since moving away over a decade earlier. It’s an homage to feeling alien in a place you haven’t lived in, but still know where everything is and how to get there.
CD Wallet also explores Peter’s early fascination with guitar music: “Wake up, grandma why don’t you put on a little makeup,” or so he thought the lyrics went to “Chop Suey!” by System of a Down. Sagar was flabbergasted; he sat, mouth open, with a copy of Guitar World magazine open to the tablature of “Chop Suey!” Reading the fine print with a magnifying glass completely stunned, knocked flat onto his back, he learned a guitar can be tuned much lower than he had expected! Drop C in fact. A tuning he uses to this day. An artist and an album were born.
CD Wallet is the sixth HOMESHAKE full-length album and was mastered by Josh Bonati. “Early” from 2019’s Helium was featured in the fifth episode of HBO’s How To with John Wilson in 2020. Following 2021's Under The Weather, HOMESHAKE toured extensively across North America, Europe, and Asia. In 2022, he released Pareidolia Catalog, a six-volume, 126-track instrumental mixtape, accompanied by a collaborative cassette box set and t-shirt with Brain Dead. That same year, HOMESHAKE co-wrote and featured on Eyedress' “Spaghetti,” one of his first collaborations since "Love Is Only a Feeling" with Joey Bada$$ in 2017. There will also be new music from HOMESHAKE forthcoming in 2024.
CD Wallet Tracklist:
1. Frayed
2. Letting Go
3. Smoke
4. Kitty
5. Basement
6. CD Wallet
7. Penciled In
8. Mirror
9. Listerine
