Before Peel Dream Magazine were the ambient psych-gaze bookworms found within last year’s listmaking Rose Main Reading Room or the post-pandemic meditational kit of 2022’s Pad, they were a loud droning burst of noise-pop on their 2018 breakthrough debut, Modern Meta Physic. We won’t be needing to wait for a well-rounded anniversary to revisit how great it was, as Slumberland Records will be reissuing the album as an expanded deluxe edition — now with unreleased tracks from the same sessions that birthed the album as well as demos from a period of transition in band frontman Joe Steven’s creative psyche. You hear that clearly on “Callers”, as the listen peaks into what would become after the static subsided. Sonic mood flipped to a relaxed fit setting, guitars stripped clean, and keys humming languidly beneath, knowing how Peel Dream Magazine got the here and now from there (beyond relocating from Brooklyn to Los Angeles…) becomes more evident in what’s likely to be a critical lookback not just on their evolution, but also, the more blissed out corners of the scene’s as well.

Peel Dream Magazine’s Modern Meta Physic will be released January 31st on Slumberland Records.