Peech Review

Artist: Peech
Title: Peech
Website: http://www.peechmusic.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/peech
Style: Acoustic Rock
Label: Unison Music
Rating: 8.2 out of 10
By C.W. Ross

 

Peech is made up of Chelsea Dohemann (vocals, guitar, piano), and Megan Osborn (vocals, guitar). This is the self-titled debut release, on Unison Music, for the California duo that met in the Cal State Chico dorms during their freshman year in college.

 

With two very distinctive personalities the two didn't even think that they would like each other but that changed when they found  their common love of music.

 

Lucky for us that they had the connection to music because Peech makes music that's worth hearing. Whether soft and on the folk side or more up-tempo with a rock beat it's all good.

 

The ladies pull their musical influences from a wide array of artist from Janis Joplin, Blondie, Police, and what they say is their favorite band of all time, The Beatles.

 

Their song lyrics deal with a wide range of emotions. The ladies like to not be pigeonholed into singing about just one subject.

 

"We take a lot of pride in being able to write about a lot of different subjects. All of our songs aren't about guys or love," says Dohemann. "Before we were writing from inside looking out, but now we're outside looking in, seeing things from a bigger perspective."

 

"If people respond to it, like cry or get really angry, just have an emotion, I feel like 'awesome, we touched someone,' " says Osborn.

 

The release gets started with the song, "Driving Blind" that features a really interesting arrangement to it, involving tempo changes. From there the release intermixes melodic folk and pop/rock tracks.

 

The release ends with track-12, "Thank You" a piano ballad that if you close your eyes and listen  visions of Tori Amos will flash into your mind.

 

Peech's self-titled release offers up 46 minutes of entertaining music with song lyrics that will draw upon your emotions.