Peel Dream Magazine - "Agitprop Alterna" | Album Review

New York City composer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Stevens founded his DIY outlet Peel Dream Magazine in 2017. He’s been releasing exquisite shoegaze music both familiar and unfamiliar since then. His sound carries the trademark swirling noise of the genre (escapist music in the time of quarantine) that makes one feel at once connected and disconnected, involved and dissolved, but there is more to consider here than other shoegaze contemporary companions. While Stereolab, Ride, and obviously, My Bloody Valentine, are ingrained in all such bands, it's rare to find one with Stevens’ level of intelligent lyricism which is so in evidence on new album Agitprop Alterna.