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Before forming Peaking Lights, Dunis was in the group’s Dynasty and Numbers. She eventually joined the Bay Area band Rahdunes, a formation Coyes was also in. The two musicians first met in San Francisco in 2006, but by the closing of 2007 they found themselves in Spring Green, Wisconsin (the town where they would form Peaking Lights). The couple formed Peaking Lights, largely as a means to fund their 2008 road trip to Texas, putting the money earned from live shows towards their travel expenses.
They independently released their self-titled debut “Clearvoiant” in 2008 and later reissued it that year on cassette through the label Night People. In 2009 the couple moved to Madison, Wisconsin and put out the album “Imaginary Falcons”. Like “Clearvoiant” this title was also issued through “Night People”, but was additionally released through the label, Fuck It Tapes. The duo’s next album “Space Primitive” came out the following year also on Night People and Fuck It cassette.
Their 2011 album “936” was their first release on Weird World and Not Not Fun. This album also marked their move back to the west coast as the duo made Los Angeles their new home. “936” received noteworthy acclaim, being described as one of the best underground releases of 2011 and was declared by Pitchfork as one of the most overlooked album of the year. Relative to the band’s prior releases the album was also a commercial success selling close to 3,000 copies within a year of it’s output. Though the album was recorded in only 3 days it featured a much more slick sound and was the first recording the band made in a studio. The album’s success inspired a re-release of it in 2013 through Mexican Summer. During the recording process of the album Coyes and Dunis made a living operating a vintage clothing and record store.
By the time they released 2012’s “Lucifer” the couple had their first child (who actually makes an appearance on the album). Similar to “936” this record made a critical splash and ended up on Pitchfork’s 2012 Best Album of the Year list. By 2013 the two had their second son and followed “Lucifer” with 2014’s “Cosmic Logic”.
Live reviews
Pyschedelic, dub-infused, languid and slo-mo are a few words you could use to describe the music made by the husband-and-wife duo of Texas’ Peaking Lights. Nothing happens with any pace while this lot are in the area. Aaron Coyes and Indra Duris self-released their own weird take on pop music on a number of occasions before they were picked up by the Not Not Fun label and released their first proper record in the shape of 936. Bass-heavy and with stuttering looped drums, the album felt hazy straight from the off, and that’s even before the hymnal and hypnotic vocals of Duris work their magic on you. They followed up with Lucifer and a dub remix version of that album, heightening the narcotic fog around their music. Depending on what version of Peaking Lights you catch live, you may get either their sound system – where Coyes and Duris mix a series of records while messing with their own electronics – or a straight-up live show which should include ‘Birds of Paradise’, a dubby take on Morricone, the colourful psychedelic freak-out of ‘Marshmallow Yellow’ and perhaps some dubby takes on the innocent ‘Lo Hi’ and the blissed out ‘Morning Star’. It’s never likely to be energetic but you won’t really find a more relaxing or chilled out evening than you will with Peaking Lights.
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