Peer Pleasure, an emerging nine-piece band from Ireland, have announced their debut album ‘Unvetted Males’ alongside the release of their new single, ‘Shed Residents’.
Formed by Brandon Murphy, Conor Kavanagh, Cein O’Dowd, Erik Murphy, Jeff Miller, Joel Pitcher, James O’Neill, and brothers Eoghan and Oisin Conroy, Peer Pleasure share members with Pants On Fire, The Donnys, and Bad Mothers Union.
Speaking about the new single, the band explain: “Shed Residents was written lyrically in 2023 and pieced together musically over the course of the year, it reflects on a time in my life of uncertainty and the places people go to find stability in the turbulence, during the covid pandemic all my friends either lived in the one place or were there all the time even if they didn’t, we created our own bubble and intense world full of humour, joy, desperation and different flavours of mental illness and full blown psychosis.
“Mornings filled with walks, games, great plans and talks of self help, evenings filled with channel 4 re runs, b movies and apocalyptic drinking. Men sleeping two abreast on two seater sofas, mattresses that should never have seen the floor and bedrooms that could’ve served as a fridge freezer combo. Again and again and again and again. The fucking place was always freezing…. I could never feel my hands… It was warmer in the shed…
“The setting and the subject matter are an observation and reflection of that time, conversations had, events that happened and deliriums endured. It always felt like the morning after a session, but not the good ones. The ones where everyone is kind of ready to head home but they feel awkward being the first one to leave, and also some of them actually live there. In many ways it was the greatest time in the worst of places.”
Their debut EP, ‘Work Allergic’, recorded at Dublin’s Hellfire Studio and Orchard Studios in Wexford, was released in April 2025 on Fuzzed Up and Astromoon Records.
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