P.E. announce their final album, Oh!

P.E. have announced their final album. On Oct. 3, they’ll release Oh! via Wharf Cat. Its first single is “Color Coordinator,” which features vocals from Eleanor Friedberger. Hear it below.

Friedberger said in a statement: “I asked Jonny Campolo for some thematic direction and he replied with a series of 10 images, some VHS stills and some photos with captions— including a picture of plastic, colored water bottles with the title ‘Color Coordinator,’ which I ran with, and imagined as a cult-like leader. This is the first time I’ve written lyrics from visual prompts; a great way to unstick if you’re feeling stuck!“

P.E.’s Jonny Campolo added: “‘Color Coordinator’ was written over an exquisite corpse correspondence between myself and Eleanor Friedberger. Sending inspiring images back and forth to each other, we began to weave them together into a narrative, describing them verbatim. What ensued was a story combined from memory and moodboard. Eleanor has this gift for imbuing lyrics with a psychedelic trust in the listener; stream of consciousness storytelling told from a narrator that maybe wasn’t even there. Trusting in hearsay, a game of telephone became a song.“

P.E.’s last album was 2022’s The Leather Lemon.

P.E. Oh! tracklist:

1. Oh!
2. Color Coordinator
3. Do You Like So So
4. Wandering Eye
5. Characters
6. The Fiction Writer
7. Purple On Time
8. Moonface
9. Floor Length
10. All The Things That Feel Good
11. Walking