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HOMESHAKE

Unlike most of us, Peter Sagar — also known as HOMESHAKE — was staying at home a lot,
long before the pandemic. Sagar wrote the majority of his fifth studio album, Under the Weather,
in 2019, when he was going through a long, unrelenting period of sadness. “I was in a deep,
deep depression,” he recalls of that time period now. “Tours were breaking me. It was awful.”
Sagar and his partner were living in Montreal and while everyone was out being social, he was
inside listening to ambient music, binging Star Trek, and writing songs. (Sound familiar?) “It was
a bit of a dark pit,” he says. “That’s kind of what the whole album is about.”
Under the Weather follows Sagar’s life and the depression that consumed him in 2019 — after a
brief album intro, it jumps right into “Feel Better,” a reflection on attempting to buck up when the
weather outside is grim. The album is hazy and moody, the pace slow as syrup, and from
beginning to end, a fog falls over every synth and guitar line. In “Inaminit,” Sagar cancels plans
when he’s feeling low; the closing track, “Tenterhooks,” sees Sagar’s deliverance into the
depths of despair: “Feel myself drying up / feel myself turn into dust,” he sings over a funhouse
mirror synth. “Oftentimes when you’re in a dark place, you’re supposed to journal and that helps
release the pressure,” Sagar says. “For me, it always found its way into the music.”
Capturing the cloudy sound of a depressive funk was no simple feat, especially in the
headspace Sagar was in for over a year. For that reason, he decided to enlist his friend, Jerry
Paper’s Lucas Nathan, to help with production on the record. Having Nathan contribute helped
Sagar dial back some of “dry, pristine digital sound” that defined his fourth studio album, Helium,
and add back personal analog touches that drew people to the HOMESHAKE project in the first
place.
“I didn’t realize how much I missed having a second set of ears. It’s pretty invaluable,” Sagar
says. He would send all the of tracks back and forth with Nathan over the course of 2019, which
made the process a longer one than he was used to. “There are a lot of things that I probably
wouldn't have done that Lucas did do. I would tend to do a lot of softening of things, a lot of
making everything super bassy and gentle. Lucas was aware that sometimes you needed some
punch and grit.” To Sagar, those additions made the record what it is — a melodic, honest look
at personal emotional struggle.
As Sagar readies it for release this September, the record he wrote about feeling isolated,
alone, and despondent has begun to seem eerily prescient. “People will probably think that I
made Under the Weather during or about Covid,” Sagar reflects now. “I was just already living
my life that way.” For Sagar, the feelings he experienced over the course of that year are far
from over — “I’ve been writing about feeling isolated my whole life,” he says — but with age, he
has come to understand them better. “I had a fairly clear idea what the album was going to be
like based on where I was emotionally at the time,” he says about Under the Weather. “I just try
to make music that is honest about how I’m feeling.”

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Tour Dates

Date	Venue	Location	With
Sat 4/2/2022	The Starlite Room	Edmonton, Alberta
Sun 4/3/2022	Commonwealth	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Fri 4/15/2022	Danforth Music Hall	Toronto, Ontario
Sat 4/16/2022	Théâtre Fairmount	Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Mon 4/18/2022	Royale	Boston, Massachusetts
Tue 4/19/2022	Brooklyn Steel	Brooklyn, New York
Wed 4/20/2022	Underground Arts	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fri 4/22/2022	9:30 Club	Washington, DC
Sat 4/23/2022	Cat's Cradle	Carrboro, North Carolina
Sun 4/24/2022	Variety Playhouse	Atlanta, Georgia
Mon 4/25/2022	Mercy Lounge	Nashville, Tennessee
Wed 4/27/2022	Republic	New Orleans, Louisiana
Thu 4/28/2022	Warehouse Live	Houston, Texas	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Fri 4/29/2022	Hotel Vegas	Austin, Texas	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Sat 4/30/2022	The Studio at the Factory	Dallas, Texas	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Mon 5/2/2022	Paper Tiger	San Antonio, Texas	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Tue 5/3/2022	Lowbrow Palace	El Paso, Texas	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Wed 5/4/2022	Crescent Ballroom	Phoenix, Arizona
Fri 5/6/2022	Observatory North Park	San Diego, California	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Sat 5/7/2022	24 Oxford at Virgin Hotels	Las Vegas, Nevada	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Sun 5/8/2022	The Observatory	Santa Ana, California	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Thu 5/12/2022	The Wiltern	Los Angeles, California	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Fri 5/13/2022	Regency Ballroom	San Francisco, California	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Sat 5/14/2022	Crystal Ballroom	Portland, Oregon	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Mon 5/16/2022	Rickshaw Theatre	Vancouver, British Columbia	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Tue 5/17/2022	The Crocodile	Seattle, Washington	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Thu 5/19/2022	Neurolux	Boise, Idaho	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Fri 5/20/2022	Urban Lounge	Salt Lake City, Utah	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Sat 5/21/2022	Gothic Theatre	Englewood, Colorado	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Mon 5/23/2022	Record Bar	Kansas City, Missouri	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Tue 5/24/2022	Cedar Cultural Center	Minneapolis, Minnesota	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Wed 5/25/2022	Thalia Hall	Chicago, Illinois	Salami Rose Joe Louis
Thu 5/26/2022	Majestic Theatre	Detroit, Michigan	Salami Rose Joe Louis