Peach Pit have announced their new album Magpie will drop on October 25th via Columbia Records. Along with the news, The band have given fans an early taste of the album with the title-track and first single, accompanied by a video, directed by frequent collaborator Lester Lyons-Hookham. Magpie is the follow-up to 2022’s From 2 to 3.

“Magpie,” character “who lives in the gutter, who’s always boozing and chasing a high and feels like he’s got his shit together because they’ll still let him sit at the strip club bar,” per Smith, who was messing around atop a drum beat when he wrote the verse. “In some ways it’s who I felt I might end up like if I never quit drinking. I had two paths ahead of me in life: one good and one bad. The song ended up a Wings-esque, Paul McCartney rock song, or, our take on one at least.”

Peach Pit initially went into the studio in the spring of 2023 with very few songs and plans to make a record on the fly – (having just watched The Beatles documentary Get Back). “Sheepishly, we began to realize it wasn’t that simple unless you’re actually The Beatles, and we decided to spend more time writing,” admits Peach Pit vocalist/guitarist Neil Smith. By the fall, when Vancouver was getting cold again and Peach Pit’s first tour of Australia was fast approaching, the album was nearly ready to be recorded, minus a few key finishing touches.

“As Vancouver was slipping into winter, Melbourne was heading into summer and the birds were everywhere,” Smith recalls. “It was the magpies that caught my attention. I’m not sure what it was about them – maybe it was just the name that I liked.” Inspired back at home by an old poem about superstitions surrounding the bird in question, and how different numbers of them are good or bad omens, Smith found connective tissue with the material already written and the new ideas rattling around in his brain.

“I liked the idea that the magpie is neither good nor bad,” he says. “Or, maybe it’s both – it just depends on how many you find. It reminded me of the record we were trying to make – the days of doubt after strumming the same four chords without a good melody, followed by the days of writing something worthwhile and biking home on a high. Magpie symbolizes the heartbreak that led to many of the songs we were writing, as well as the new love that inspired the others. The year it had taken to make Magpie had been full of ups and downs – constantly changing and leaving the good for the bad and the bad for the good, just like the songs on the record.”

Peach Pit
Magpie
Tracklisting

Every Little Thing
Yasmina
Am I Your Girl
Little Dive
Outta Here
Did You Love Somebody
St. Mark’s Funny Feeling
Magpie
Nowhere Next To Me
Wax & Wane
Your Long Black Hair

Pre-order Magpie by Peach Pit HERE