SPEAK's highly anticipated new album Pedals offers a beguiling mix of fresh experimentalism and confident craftsmanship, splitting the difference between dreamy electronica, hip hop production tricks, rock instrumentation and traditional song structure, channeling their multiple interests into a sound, style and attitude that are wholly their own.
Throughout Pedals, Gammage's emotion-charged vocals, Nick Hurt's densely layered guitars, bassist Joey Delahoussaye's and drummer Jake Stewart's authoritatively funky beats and the band's soaring three-part harmonies combine to make music that's unfailingly catchy yet unmistakably personal, and equally effective in a club environment or in a more intimate setting.