936

Check out a sweet mini-documentary about Peaking Lights + their amazing album 936. Featuring a cameo from the duo's newborn son Mikko, as well as some live footage from their first ever 936 show at the Chicago Museum of Modern Art. Directed by Ben Poster...

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Hit up the new Peaking Lights website 936.fm, featuring "a week of music curated by Peaking Lights" leading up to the UK release of album-of-the-year-contender 936 on 11/21 via Weird World. Check the first mix from the band on loop over there, and download a dope new Main Attrakionz remix of 936 highlights "Marshmellow Yellow" + vocals lifted from "Amazing & Wonderful

Peaking Lights play a couple jams off one of the albums of the year for WFMU. Featuring a brief cameo by their new baby Miko. In other Peaking Lights news, the band recently inadvertently soundtracked some vintage beach porn (NSFW).

To celebrate the announcement of their much-deserved signing to Domino / Weird World / Mexican Summer on the strength of one of the best albums of 2011, Peaking Lights have hooked up another one of their impeccable, impossibly eclectic mixes (like the one they made for us back in April) for free download...

Peaking Lights return with another amazing & wonderful mixtape -- put together for Chicago blog The Minimal Beat -- featuring adventurous and obscure summer-appropriate sounds from around the world. Download below via TMB, and check the tracklist after the jump... mp3: (55 mb)

A casting call for potential Aaron and Indra stand-ins turns into a psychedelic karaoke session in this new official Peaking Lights clip, directed by Ben Shearn & Amanda Brown. "Amazing & Wonderful" appears on the group's brilliant 936, out now on cassette via Not Not Fun...

We wrote a brief love letter to Peaking Lights' transcendent new record over at Altered Zones -- if you missed our previous posts about the album, we like it a lot. Go here to check it out. mp3: