Vanessa Peters

Weaving thoughtful, introspective lyrics with irresistible melodies, Vanessa Peters has been releasing album after album of well-crafted folk/rock gems for more than a decade. She has played thousands of shows across the US and Europe and has recently opened for artists like Josh Rouse, 10,000 Maniacs, John Oates, Matthew Sweet, Mikaela Davis, and Lucette.

Peters’s new album, Modern Age, presents 11 tracks of energetic, guitar-driven pop/rock. From the opening power chords of the Foo Fighters-influenced title track, it’s obvious that this album is headed in a new direction: collaborating closely with her band brought a fresh, raucous energy to this collection that has rarely surfaced before outside of Peters’s live shows. Songs like “Crazymaker” are rich with driving electric guitars atop 4-on-the-floor AC/DC-inspired drum beats, while the insistent, pulsing keyboards and angular guitar riffs on “Hood Ornament” call to mind bands like Spoon and LCD Soundsystem.

In the midst of a truly dark year, Peters and her band have conspired to make an album that is simultaneously powerful but playful; intense yet sensitive; both angry and hopeful. In Modern Age, we find Peters once again writing and delivering songs of exceptional lyrical and musical power, further cementing her reputation among the new generation of American songwriters.

⭐⭐⭐⭐ - MOJO // "Dallas's Aimee Mann" - Dallas Morning News