Album Notes

"Stay Inside is a smart, restless set of left-of-the-dial pop/rock." - Jeff Apter (former Rolling Stone editor, author of the upcoming Jeff Buckley biography, ’A Pure Drop’; and author of biographies on The Cure, RHCP and Silverchair.) "A perfectly crafted slice of pop/rock." - Michael Smith, Drum Media (Sydney) "Intelligent lyrics and tricky melodies... a heady mix of melody and power chords." - Sebastian Skeet, Inpress (Melbourne) "[An] album of inventive Australian guitar pop," - Iain Sheddon, The Weekend Australian "Keep plugging away, lads, Ian Curtis can only be cool for so long." - Mitch Alexander, Rave (Brisbane) “Never again will there be spun a tale like this,” sings peregrine songwriter Brett Winterford in 'Oludeniz', one of the standout tracks from the pop-rock quartet’s new album, 'Stay Inside and Misbehave'. That tale starts somewhere in the band’s hometown of Sydney, Australia. Playing a two-year residency to a packed, beer-soaked corner-pub in Glebe, Peregrine first stumbled upon a national audience courtesy of 'Fingerpointing', the opening track from their debut album 'One Big Happy Heart Attack'. With Fingerpointing finding its way onto triple j rotation, the band spent the next 18 months playing big cities and rural towns alike, peddling an album that reviewers unanimously hailed as one Sydney’s best kept secrets. Touring developed in Peregrine songwriter Brett Winterford a taste for the travelling life - taking leave of the band, he spent the next twelve months traipsing around the globe. He would meet flamenco dancers in Madrid, revolutionaries in Berlin, famous French designers in London and senile old drunks in Cork. He sailed around the Greek Islands with a broken leg, got arrested for swimming nude in Rome’s Trevi Fountain, fell disastrously in and out of love… it was the stuff every songwriter dreams of. Much of the text of that journey would form the basis of songs for the band’s follow-up album 'Stay Inside and Misbehave'. Produced by Daniel Denholm (Midnight Oil, The Cruel Sea), 'Stay Inside' takes peregrine to territories beyond the youthful naivete of its predecessor. More diverse and emotionally intense, the album is inspired by the likes of Elvis Costello and Jarvis Cocker - songwriters that have explored the more fragile aspects of their personalities. The album begins with the rollicking, unchartered waters of 'The Good Ship', with guitarist Felix Akurangi’s guitars snaking and snarling around a honky tonk piano and a choppy Gomez-by-way-of-Hendrix groove. Then there’s the band’s pop-de-resistance 'Dear John Letter' - a passionate, brutal letter to the ‘other man’ in a disastrous love triangle, delivered with surf-rock inspired verses and a gritty, distorted refrain. In 'Close Your Eyes', the songwriter asks his sometime lover to think of him while her hips move to somebody else’s rhythm. Fidelity also forms the central theme of 'Oludeniz', a blitzkrieg of indie rock that bursts out of the eerily melancholy of 'Unnecessary noise'. In 'Take My Time', the band was afforded the opportunity to work with one of the band’s songwriting idols, David Lane (piano), while the string section of the Australian Chamber Orchestra swells around a tale tinged with regret but hopeful of a brighter future. And of course, the rockabilly swing that put the band on the map is still there - especially in 'Everything’s Under Control', a track that some 150,000 people have already heard on YouTube after Berlin TV company ASDTV chose it for an “Office Lip Dub”. 'Stay Inside and Misbehave' has all the depth of a band inspired, well-traveled and ready to take the next leap in their musical lives.