Rose Main Reading Room, the fourth full length by Peel Dream Magazine, is a lush, inviting headphones record; the kind of album made to accompany city bus rides and rainy-day solo trips to accidental destinations. The band, whose name nods to the BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel -- arbiter of all things underground, quality, and (it must be said) "cool" -- has since its inception been a genre-hopping experiment, jumping from motorik krautrock to shoegaze and space ago pop, and their newest work is a perfect starting point for the uninitiated, beckoning toward a newfound romance and nostalgia with their catchiest collection of songs to date.

Watch the video for "Wish You Well" →
Recommended if you like: Stereolab, Air, Belle & Sebastian, Julia Holter, Jessica Pratt, blue sky Nat-Geo pop

Set to the backdrop of New York City and its towering landmarks -- The American Museum of Natural History, Grand Central Station, and the like -- songwriter Joseph Stevens weaves personal stories into the wider fabric of the natural world, touching on themes of instinct, animality, and evolution. On their latest single "Wish You Well", the band leans into its pop rock sensibilities with a lingering feeling of catharsis hanging above.

Of the song and the video, Peel Dream Magazine's Joe Stevens writes:

"Wish You Well" is a song about the animality that we are all hardwird with, and how it can bring out the worst in us. Instinct drives some people to be ruthlessly competitive, Rose Main Reading Room deals a lot with this juncture of the civilized and natural world. I wrote this song as a statement, like, freeing myself from the influence of people who've pushed me around at different points in my life. In the music video, Olivia and I are portraying people who secretly try to undermine others. Everyone's behavior is juxtaposed with these brutally violent scenes from nature, as well as all of this DNA and celluar imagery to establish this idea that its completely elemental. We shot this video with an awesome filmmaker who goes by Otium, and got to play around with all these different performance setups in front of a cyclorama wall in downtown LA.

Peel Dream Magazine US Tour 2024 supporting Wild Nothing

• July 31, 2024 - Denton, TX @ Andy's Bar
• August 2, 2024 - Birmingham, AL @ Saturn
• August 3, 2024 - Nashville, TN - Third Man Records Blue Room
• August 5, 2024 - Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
• August 6, 2024 - Detroit, MI @ Magic Stick
• August 8, 2024 - Toronto, ON @ Lee's Palace
• August 9, 2024 - Montreal, QC @ Theatre Fairmount
• August 11, 2024 - Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
• August 12, 2024 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere
• August 13, 2024 - Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts
• August 14, 2024 - Washington, DC @ Union Stage

• August 1, 2024 - Jackson, MS @ Hal & Mal's
• August 16, 2024 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
• August 18, 2024 - Austin, TX @ Mohawk
• September 7, 2024 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon