Jack Peñate releases new EP Noetics

Noetics is Peñate's first release since dropping his first album in 10 years, After You, last year.

The three-track EP was recorded at the end of 2019, with part of it recorded at New York's Electric Lady Studios.

Peñate's new project also includes the first studio recording of "No One Lied", which previously only existed as a one-take live performance video filmed in 2012 by director Dani Castro-Garcia.

The Noetics EP release is accompanied by a visual for "Not Enough", also directed by Dani Castro-Garcia.

Peñate says of the EP, "Everyone saw angels in the sky, their faces materialised as we lay on our backs. Real or projections, it’s difficult to know. These songs are like that. They appeared and faded many lives before now. Incarnations of incarnations, discursively forming over and over until a short session during lockdown (all social distanced and by government standards) where they were brought together to take their final shape."

He continues, "They’re exhalations cast in stone I suppose, a reflection on the reflection. They were written about times now seemingly unreal but with more authority than what I know has really existed. Inspired in ways by the Disintegration Loops [William Basinski], they grasp for understanding of something revelatory but ephemeral and the war to regain that knowledge. Sometimes you’ve got to let time rub the edges off, the sun burn holes and the flux of the seasons warp the memory tape."