[Cover photo credit to Samuel Harris]

NYC-based Math Rock trio Peaer have returned with their new single, “Just Because.” It’s their first new release since 2019’s A Healthy Earth.

Peaer’s primary songwriter Peter Katz explains:

This song is about how relationships change over time. Often without us realizing it. Often without us even really trying to change. It happens ‘just because.’

The band will also be making its live return with their first show in nearly a year this Saturday, November 16, in Brooklyn at Baby’s All Right alongside Pet Fox. Tickets and more information are available here. 

Peaer began in earnest in 2014, when Katz sought to blend his love of windy Math Rock with contemplative Slowcore. From this sprang 2014’s lo-fi, home-recorded album the eyes sink into the skull, released digitally via Bandcamp with Katz taking on all of the instrumentation himself.

From there, the idea of Peaer evolved, and while touring on 2016’s self-titled LP (Peaer), Katz joined forces with now long-term close-collaborators Jeremy Kinney (drums, engineering) and Thom Lombardi (bass, vocals). The trio came together to write and produce 2019’s aforementioned, critically acclaimed A Healthy Earth, which they quickly followed up with The Hands and Feet Turn Blue (2019), an Eyes companion album featuring reworked songs, demos, and remixes. 

 
When the COVID-19 pandemic put a halt to their touring plans, Peaer spent the time in between evolving and refining new material. “Just Because” kicks off the result of their work and leads to what may lie ahead.