The former pixies bassist, Peace Lenchantin, brings together a perfect circle in the new single

‘Hang Touch’, the next peace album, has contributions from the drummer Josh Freese and the guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, two decades after everyone played together with the Perfect Circle

Peace Lenchantinwho played at the bottom in the Pixies Between 2014 and 2024, after tickets a Zwan AND The perfect circleHe is relaunching his solo career with the album Sadwhich arrives on October 17th. He just launched the debut single “Hang touch”accompanied by a video.

“I had to do this album alone,” he says Lechantin in a declaration. “Not to demonstrate anything, but only to have faith that music can feed me again. And he did it.”

Lechantin has created most of the music of Sad alone, but recruited two of his former bandmates from The perfect circle – the drummer Josh Freese and the guitarist Troy van leeuwen – To join her in the studio. He also had Spanish musicians he met after publishing an announcement Instagram.

The album began to take shape last year in Petatlán, Mexico, when Lechantin He wrote a series of songs on a young woman who falls in love with Jesus.

Lechantin It is not necessarily religious “, says the official biography of the album”, has seen history as a metaphor for salvation: the human impulse to seek a god or a divine figure, and dedicate itself to something that cannot love you … This driving metaphor has modeled the logic of the dreams of the album, with every letter that reflects a fragment of one’s life Lechantin in a wider analogy.

“What was special for me when I did this album is that I learned who I am, so far in my musical journey, simply allowing me the freedom of my choice,” he said Lechantin. “He became a witness of a tree that fell in my forest, without the need to scream” wood “.”

The music of Sad It is a great change in relation to the work of Lechantin with the Pixies. He joined the Alt-Rock icons in 2014, after the bass player’s departure Kim Shattuck. “Charles [Thompson, a.k.a. Black Francis] He is the greatest artist I have ever worked with, “he said Rolling stone In 2022, as part of our series of interviews Unknown legends. “I thought:” This band is missing and this is missing that band … “but with which to work with with Charles, Joey [Santiago] AND David [Lovering] He really joined me and completed me in every way I was looking for. It is truly the top of the mountain “.

In 2024, after having recorded three albums with the Pixies and tours around the world several times, the band has announced that it was separating Lechantin. “My departure is a bit surprising for me, just like many” Lechantin said to Rolling stone When the news was released. “But it seems that they have a solid plan, which, in turn, prompted me to go on with new projects in which I am enthusiastic.”

Shortly thereafter, a “great artist” invited Lechantin To join your band as a bass player. “I frozen,” he tells of the album biography, stating that his previous experiences in high -profile groups left her “traumatized”. “And to what extent can you bring you this?” asks, noting that he refused the offer to create Sad. “Otherwise,” he said, “you walk in a circle.”

This entry was originally published by Rolling Stone USA by Andy Greene on August 19, 2025 and can be checked here.

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