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Kestrels are primed to drop their most ambitious record yet, Better Wonder, on Darla Records on 14 February 2025. It’s a nighttime delirium of an album that wrestles with love, loss, and the culmination of a life in pursuit — of what, frontman Chad Peck’s still not sure.
Kestrels is an ever-changing project first formed in 2008 that has seen Peck playing with a wide cast of characters — J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. included — and opening for the likes of Bob Mould. The lineup this time around features bassist Jim MacAlpine and drummer Michael Catano (North of America), who also played on Dream. John Agnello and mastering engineer Greg Calbi also lent a hand.
Better Wonder is “a nighttime record riddled with anxiety written during a weird time,” Peck says. “I had lived alone in the woods most of my adult life and I loved that lifestyle in a lot of ways. But during that time period there was so much change and tumult and those feelings of insanity at three in the morning. I was trying to capture it in a murky, uncomfortable sound.”
The result is a woozy, disorienting suite of tracks, like finding a secret station between channels on a late-night drive. Give in to the gloom.
Kestrels is an ever-changing project first formed in 2008 that has seen Peck playing with a wide cast of characters — J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. included — and opening for the likes of Bob Mould. The lineup this time around features bassist Jim MacAlpine and drummer Michael Catano (North of America), who also played on Dream. John Agnello and mastering engineer Greg Calbi also lent a hand.
Better Wonder is “a nighttime record riddled with anxiety written during a weird time,” Peck says. “I had lived alone in the woods most of my adult life and I loved that lifestyle in a lot of ways. But during that time period there was so much change and tumult and those feelings of insanity at three in the morning. I was trying to capture it in a murky, uncomfortable sound.”
The result is a woozy, disorienting suite of tracks, like finding a secret station between channels on a late-night drive. Give in to the gloom.
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