Peaceful Faces – the performance moniker of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Tree Palmedo, who has also worked with Fleet Foxes as a trumpeter. Here, on a song from Peaceful Faces’ recently released third album “Without a Single Fight“, he contemplates the restless feeling of continually being in the wrong place at the wrong time: “I feel like I don’t really belong / Head in the clouds and my body in the bed.” Disassociation, with a hint of Harry Nilsson to it’s baroque pop beauty.
Another take on the song – and one offered by its writer – connects to the covid times that birthed it, as Palmedo explains it is : “a song about hustling in the era when disease and other specters of the time linger over everyone’s head. Can I still be going out to shows and meeting new folks when we’re all so scared? Am I losing the game because I’m not as able to risk physical and mental health?”
