Homeshake, AKA: Peter Sagar, has announced new tour dates, starting this August in support of his current release Helium, now available via Sinderlyn (Tim Cohen, Cults). The new dates include, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and more.

Homeshake
Helium
Sinderlyn
Track listing

Early
Anything At All
Like Mariah
Heartburn
All Night Long
Trudi And Lou
Just Like My
Nothing Could Be Better
Other Than
Salu Says Hi
Another Thing
Couch Cushion
(Secret Track)

Sagar began writing Helium shortly after completing 2017’s Fresh Air, and in the middle of what he calls a “binge” reading of Haruki Murakami. It’s not hard to picture the narrator of these songs as a distinctly Murakamian character: He moves through time by himself, bemused by and insulated from a world he doesn’t quite seem to have been made for. The record is stitched together by a series of instrumental interludes, synthesizer explorations whose haziness adds to the suspicion that this is all an uncanny dream. A budding interest in ambient and experimental music — particularly Visible Cloaks, DJ Rashad, and Jlin — pushed him to tinker with the micro-sounds that surround the songs here. Helium is at its core a record made by someone who doesn’t feel beholden to any particular set of sounds, textures, or instruments to get his point across. In that sense, it feels closer to the bone, at once assured of its vision and remarkably vulnerable.

Homeshake
North American live dates

Wed. Aug. 7 – El Paso, TX @ Lowbrow Palace *
Thu. Aug. 8 – San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger *
Fri. Aug. 9 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk Outside *
Sat. Aug. 10 – Houston, TX @ Satellite Bar *
Sun. Aug. 11 – Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater *
Tue. Aug. 13 – Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater *
Wed. Aug. 14 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge *
Thu. Aug. 15 – Boise, ID @ Neurolux *
Fri. Aug. 16 – Seattle, WA @ Neumos *
Sat. Aug. 17 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall *
Mon. Aug. 19 – San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall *
Wed. Aug. 21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent *

* w/ KeithCharles