{"id":2349,"date":"2021-02-22T19:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2021-02-17T19:58:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T19:58:07","slug":"vanessa-peters-to-release-new-album-modern-age-on-april-23-2021-further-cementing-her-stellar-reputation-among-new-generation-of-american-songwriters-with-songs-of-exceptional-lyrical-and-musi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skyemediaonline.com\/wordpress\/vanessa-peters-to-release-new-album-modern-age-on-april-23-2021-further-cementing-her-stellar-reputation-among-new-generation-of-american-songwriters-with-songs-of-exceptional-lyrical-and-musi\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Peters to release new album, “Modern Age,” on April 23, 2021, further cementing her stellar reputation among new generation of American songwriters with songs of exceptional lyrical and musical power"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Immediate Release
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Vanessa Peters to release new album,\u00a0Modern Age<\/em>, on April 23, 2021, further cementing her stellar reputation among new generation of American songwriters with songs of exceptional lyrical and musical power<\/strong><\/p>\n

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First single, \u201cCrazymaker,\u201d to be released February 26, 2021; premiere scheduled for February 24th with\u00a0Glide Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Texas-and-Italy-based singer-songwriter Vanessa Peters is set to release a new album,\u00a0Modern Age<\/em>, on April 23, 2021 via Idol Records. The first single from the collection is the song \u201cCrazymaker,\u201d which premieres with\u00a0Glide Magazine<\/em>\u00a0on February 24th and will be released on February 26th.\u00a0 The second single, the title track, will follow with a release date on March 26th.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking this record over the last year was an exercise in patience and tenacity; the pandemic seemed to thwart us at every turn,\u201d says Peters. \u201cEvery plan turned into a plan B, but strangely, I think it’s a better record for the adversity we went through to get it made.\u00a0 This was the year of working with what was in front of us, of embracing our limitations and turning them into strengths. I’m so proud of the album we created during such a tough and dark time.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s easy to casually lump Peters into a generic Americana category; in reality, her albums have actually run the gamut from indie-pop to alt-country to experimental folk to \u201970s-era throwback singer\/songwriter rock. With\u00a0Modern Age<\/em>, her second release for Idol Records, she has built a modern\/classic rock album that reveals a steely defiance. In the midst of a truly dark year, she and the band have made an album that is simultaneously powerful but playful; intense yet sensitive; both angry and hopeful. In\u00a0Modern Age<\/em>, we find Peters once again writing and delivering songs of exceptional lyrical and musical power, further cementing her reputation among the new generation of American songwriters.<\/p>\n

In late February 2020, Peters was in Italy, getting ready to go on a European tour with her band. She had just launched a Kickstarter to fund\u00a0Modern Age<\/em>\u00a0(it was fully funded within three days), and recording sessions were scheduled for March; the band planned to head to Austin, Texas for SXSW and then to record the album with her friend and old tourmate, Grammy-award winning producer Joe Reyes, and engineer wunderkind Jim Vollentine.<\/p>\n

When Italy suddenly went into a national lockdown, Peters and her husband\/bandmate, Rip Rowan, instead hatched a plan to work around the international travel restrictions. Building on a series of demos recorded on the road in the Netherlands and Germany during their last tour, the band holed up in a farmhouse in Castiglion Fiorentino, the small town in Italy that Peters had once called home. Over the course of 10 days, they worked to finish the songs they\u2019d begun the year prior and to tackle the batch of new songs that Peters had written in the meantime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was recorded kind of like Jackson Browne\u2019s\u00a0Running on Empty<\/em>,\u201d recalls Peters. \u201cWe worked on the album in four different countries and in pop-up studios, in part while we were on tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Produced and mixed by Rowan, with mastering by Dave McNair,\u00a0Modern Age<\/em>\u00a0also boasts a band lineup featuring Peters (vocals, acoustic guitar), Rowan (drums, keyboards), Federico Ciancabilla (electric guitar), Matteo Patrone (keyboards), and Andrea Colicchia (bass guitar), with special guest Reyes providing rhythm guitar on the first single, \u201cCrazymaker.\u201d From the opening power chords of the title track, it\u2019s obvious that this album\u2019s close collaboration with her band brought a fresh, raucous energy to this collection that has rarely surfaced before outside of Peters\u2019s live shows.<\/p>\n

\u201cCrazymaker,\u201d which explores the sort of person who makes you feel that you are the crazy one when, in reality, he\/she is the real manipulator, trapping you in a toxic relationship, is rich with driving electric guitars atop four-on-the-floor AC\/DC-inspired drums. Other cuts on the album, like \u201cHood Ornament,\u201d call to mind bands like Spoon and LCD Soundsystem. Yet despite the shimmery pop-rock packaging these songs are wrapped in, Peters doesn\u2019t shy away from pulling the lyrical punches she is known for. She\u2019s downright angry on \u201cYes,\u201d unleashing a tidal wave of frustration at being written off as a \u201cchick singer.\u201d On \u201cMake Up My Mind,\u201d she wrestles with indecision and self-doubt, channeling \u201990s-era Smashing Pumpkins grunge, while \u201cNever Really Gone\u201d is a luminous, Fleetwood Mac-esque take on the joy of discovering that you can, in fact, go home again.<\/p>\n

Intertwining introspective lyrics with irresistible melodies, Peters has been releasing album after album of well-crafted folk\/rock gems for more than a decade. Her previous album of original material,\u00a0Foxhole Prayers<\/em>, was a successful and critically-acclaimed release that put Peters on the national stage with a glowing 4-star\u00a0MOJO\u00a0<\/em>review plus invitations to perform at NPR\u2019s \u201cMountain Stage,\u201d 30A, and AmericanaFest. She has performed thousands of concerts in the United States and Europe and has opened for such artists as Josh Rouse, 10,000 Maniacs, John Oates, Matthew Sweet, Ben Ottewell, and Horse Feathers.<\/p>\n

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For Immediate Release February 22, 2021   Vanessa Peters to release new album,\u00a0Modern Age, on April 23, 2021, further cementing her stellar reputation among new generation of American songwriters with songs of exceptional lyrical and musical power   First single, \u201cCrazymaker,\u201d to be released February 26, 2021; premiere scheduled for February 24th with\u00a0Glide Magazine   … <\/p>\n

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