Peter Squires / Woe is Me

** Brooklyn’s Peter Squires buries his woes and releases new album Woe Is Me with a nationwide tour to follow**

"Peter’s most recent album, 'Woe Is Me'...is about loss. About life throwing you a curveball right when you thought you were going to hit it out of the park."

-TheRumpus.net

"Cool, unpretentious folk music that's worth the download!"

-Indie Kiddin' (Brazil)

Life is not a “choose your own adventure” book where we lead the direction in a protagonist’s life. If life were indeed a choose your own adventure book, we would most certainly go back to the page where we were before we lead to some path unwanted and we would choose a different path, a different destiny. This would be an unfortunate fate for us all because would not have been given the album Peter Squires left us after a particulary painful breakup. Woe Is Me is an urban tale of heartbreak and betrayal against carefully stripped down folk songs beating and bleeding with raw emotion. Delicate layers of guitar and minor percussive flairs create a minimalist music with an enduring beauty.

Peter’s direct and honest vocal delivery will make you think of contemporaries like Kimya Dawson and Luke Temple… or even legacy artists like Cat Stevens or minimalist composer Steve Reisch subtle productions while playing with emotions in the way Morrissey would or The Cure. Each song creaks beyond your shield and into your soul creating an album that is all heart, laid bare for our aural pleasure. The up-front honestly, heart on a sleeve Woe Is Me was recorded in Peter Squires Brooklyn bedroom. This stark look at one man’s journalistic view of heartbreak, complete with dark imagery and tender moments too, leaves us listeners with some amazing folk gems.

Full of soul, fear, laughs, tears, broken dreams – Woe is Me is the perfect album for your own woe’s, your own story, your own life as you choose your own adventures.



PETER SQUIRES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR:

November 15, 2009 – Radio Bean – Burlington, VT
November 16, 2009 – Slainte – Portland,MN
November 17, 2009 – The Starving Artist – Keene, NH
November 19, 2009 – Stage Right Studios – Woonsocket,RI
November 21, 2009 – Freddy’s Back Room – Brooklyn, NY
November 30, 2009 – The Terrordome – Philadelphia, PA
December 1, 2009 – The Asylum – Washington,DC
December 2, 2009 – The Nightlight – Chapel Hill, NC
December 4, 2009 – Firestorm Books and Café – Asheville,NC
December 11, 2009 – Flipnotics – Austin,TX
December 16, 2009 – The Ruby Room – San Diego,CA

More tour dates to come!

BIO


Raw, unpolished, and disarmingly personal, Woe is Me — the debut release from indie-folk newcomer Peter Squires — is a sweet and sincere portrait of a young man recovering from heartbreak.
Recorded in his Brooklyn bedroom, Squires' songs cathartically express lovelorn despair with refreshing humor and self-awareness. Like the best work of Morrissey and Magnetic Fields, Peter Squires keeps things playful while he breaks your heart.

Resources
http://www.petersquiressongs.com/
http://www.myspace.com/petersquiressongs
http://www.twitter.com/PSquiresSongs

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