Peyr

It's great to stumble upon something that feels so much like a hidden treasure. There are those day's when your ennui hits you really hard and you're convinced that despite all the digging you've done over the years the stockpile of these hidden treasures is ever dwindling. So when you are lucky enough to find one it's worth checking out.

Peyr(or Theyr) an Icelandic group circa 1982, until last week I had never heard of them, and for good reason. The records they put out in the eighties are now incredibly hard to come by, well that and the masters were destroyed so there never has been and probably never will be any reissues.

I'm not going to get into their history or story, I'll leave that up to the great and wise Wikipedia. But they were into Thelema (Alister Crowley's belief system), and who knows what else, (I'm seeing images of bizarre sex rites performed in near zero degree weather with health doses of elks blood rubbed all over themselves, gross).

Sufficed to say they have a really strange sort of sound. To my ears it's like a combination of Rites of spring, U2 (Boy years), and some Joy Division. Interesting stuff. There is a link at the bottom of the wikipedia page for a few videos on you tube.


click here PEYR