Pete International Airport revolves around the restless genius of Portland’s Peter G. Holmström (The Dandy Warhols, Sun Atoms), whose psychedelic explorations dive headlong into the electrified depths of electronic rock. This side project, named after a Dandy Warhols track, brims with bold experimentation and a sly, swaggering charm. Holmström orchestrates his collaborators like pieces on a chaotic chessboard, encouraging collisions of creativity and bursts of brilliance.
Now, Pete International Airport unveils the Sea of Eyes EP, released via Little Cloud Records—a kaleidoscopic journey that takes Holmström’s boundary-pushing instincts and channels them into a thrilling new chapter of sound and sensation. The five-track odyssey emerges from the creative alchemy between Peter G. Holmström and Alexander Hackett of Montreal’s dream-gaze project Pang Attack. Hackett lends his ethereal vocals to the title track, a piece brimming with restless energy and pulsing vitality. Holmström enlists long-time collaborators to reimagine the music, spinning it into unpredictable territory.
Fueled by the frenetic energy of rave culture, the music pulses with a relentless motorik beat, its hypnotic rhythms evoking the adrenaline of films like Hackers or Snatch. Each track feels like a late-night drive through neon-lit chaos, full of momentum and mischief. Layers of pulsing electronics ripple and roll, each wave a rhythmic invitation to move, to lose yourself in its magnetic pull. The music churns with hypnotic precision, blending beats and melody into an electrified harmony that feels as natural as it is exhilarating. This is no mere collaboration—it’s a collision of creativity, brimming with boundless energy and an undeniable sense of joy.
Ride’s Andy Bell reshapes Sea of Eyes with his GLOK remix, a kinetic burst of layered rhythms, while Tom Smith (Holy Youth Movement) and Daniel Sparks (omniscuro) unleash their own electrifying reworkings. The Out Past The Razor Wire (HYM Post-Industrial Remix) channels a rave-fueled chaos, surging with adrenaline and dystopian grit.
“I really wanted to showcase Alexander Hackett’s vocal contributions to the record,” says Holmström. “There’s just this insane depth to his lyrics, and his voice is fantastic. The way the initial rollout of the album happened his songs weren’t the singles… I needed to do something to put that out there, and because I’m gonna be working with him in the future, it was something I wanted to do. It also was an excuse to reach out to Andy Bell and see if he’d do a remix and get some other friends involved…I always love hearing other people’s interpretations of the tracks and what their ears latch onto and where they take the track from there.”
The psychedelic video, directed by Francesca Bonci, leads viewers through a kaleidoscopic trip that’s both unsettling and hypnotic. A surreal journey unfolds, drifting past windmills, trees, and open fields, all warped and twisted like a dream on the edge of unraveling. There’s a slow, creeping tension in every scene, as if reality is just barely holding itself together. Bonci doesn’t rush; she lets the bizarre landscape sink in, making the viewer feel both lost and strangely at ease. The visuals echo a fractured mind, blending the familiar with the distorted, leaving a lasting impression of quiet disquiet.
Watch the video for “Sea of Eyes” below:
The Sea of Eyes EP marks a natural progression from It Felt Like The End of the World and the Tic Tac 7″ single, showcasing an impressive roster of neo-psychedelic talent. Contributors include Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dion Lunadon of A Place to Bury Strangers, and Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson, among others. Mixed by Jeremy Sherrer and mastered by Dave Cooley, the EP blends various influences, with recordings primarily done at Holmström’s Air Traffic Control studio, while drums were captured at The Trench Studios by Gregg Williams.
On November 29, Sea of Eyes will be available on limited edition cassette. It Felt Like The End of the World is also available on deluxe double vinyl, CD and digitally.
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