peachlyfe announces first full-length album ‘Permission to Roam’

peachlyfe has announced their first full-length album, ‘Permission to Roam’, set for release via Nene H’s UMAY on March 29.

The record continues on from the artist’s previous ‘Boi ¯_(ツ)_/¯’ EP, which was inspired by trans-masculine superheroes, by this time rooting the LP’s premise in a sci-fi tale which explores love, disguise, sex and fantasy.

Sonically, the record comprises of eight leftfield yet driving trance and techno cuts, with experimentation at its core, guided by finely-carved percussion and a dark, hypnotic clamour. Lead single ‘Sentient Intent’ is available now, which you can check out below:

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“I see this album as something more holistic—breaking away from purely that club-ready sound,” explains the Copenhagen-based artist. “It was a conceptual process of translating abstract emotions conjured by the text back into the music, and vice versa.”

The narrative of the record follows two protagonists: Jack, a cis male, and Jane, a transgender woman. According to its press release, the pair explore “their existential odyssey through five different realms, where they navigate shifting perspectives on the world while losing their sensory understanding of it—before eventually melding together into one higher non-binary being”.

“Even in fantasy and sci-fi, worlds are painted as extremely binary,” peachlyfe explains on the storyline. “I wanted to create a surrealist narrative with more fluidity, which presents gender as something of interchangeability.”

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To accompany the full release at the end of the month, a limited edition of the ‘Permission to Roam’ story as a printed book is also set to be shared, with more information to be shared in due course.

For now, you can pre-order ‘Permission to Roam’ by Peachlyfe now here and check out lead single ‘Sentient Intent’.

Niamh Ingram is Mixmag’s Weekend Editor, follow her on Instagram