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Peter and The Wolves

by Peter and The Wolves

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Lego Heart 04:51
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2.
Where Are You? 03:39
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3.
Promises 04:07
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4.
Rip Out 05:17
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5.
Shadow 04:29
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6.
Eight Track 04:52
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7.
Ship Of Fools 03:04
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Peter and the Wolves is the debut release by a new band with a long tale.

Singer Peter Marshall and guitarist-songwriter John McDougall started making music together at Onslow College in the late 70s. The Wetas begat The Rodents who begat The Hulamen, who drew national attention for their pioneering 1982 indie EP Beer and Skittles, notable for McDougall’s enduring song ‘Barking Up The Wrong Tree’, with its outstanding vocal by Marshall.

But the pair would gain their highest profile later that decade as members of The Holidaymakers, whose cover of Bill Withers’ song ‘Sweet Lovers’ became a nationwide hit, holding the number one spot for six weeks and winning seven categories in the 1988 New Zealand Music Awards.

The demise of the Holidaymakers saw Marshall and McDougall pursuing other professions (Marshall in the film industry, McDougall in teaching), though neither gave up music. McDougall continued to write prolifically and now Marshall has assembled Peter and the Wolves to record some of those songs.

Peter and the Wolves reunites Marshall and McDougall with drummer Tim Robinson (The Rodents and The Hulamen), includes multi-instrumentalist Dave Khan (Tami Neilson, Tim Finn), bass players Nick Bollinger and Justin Harwood, guitarist Peter Daube, plus contributions from other former Hulamen and Holidaymakers Steve Jessup, John Niland and Richard Caigou among them.

Recorded and co-produced by renowned studio wizard Edmund McWilliams, Peter and the Wolves includes recent as well as older McDougall songs. The opening track ‘Lego Heart’ – with its tragi-surreal Steven Hinderwell lyric – falls into the latter category. McDougall expressed his desire to record it as a Holidaymakers single in a 1988 Rip It Up interview.

Newer songs include the delicate ‘Promises’ (which Marshall sings here as a duet with Geva Downey, formerly of Haunted Love), the loping country ballad of ‘Where Are You?’, and the giddy sea shanty ‘Ship Of Fools’.

The sound is warm and woody, acoustic sounds offset by unexpected textures: the John Cale-like screech of Khan’s violin on ‘Rip Out’, or John Niland’s blistering keyboards on ‘Eight Track’.

A long time brewing, Peter and the Wolves is an original and mature music - naturally aged and ready for consumption.

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released December 3, 2014

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