"Peanut is the sixth-ish album by New York-based musician and engineer Otto Benson, and the first with vocals. He shed a lot of skin before arriving at this album's dusky, dusty sound, which is defined by gentle nylon-stringed guitar and shivery Rhodes piano and lands somewhere at the intersection of Frankie Cosmos, Hayden Pedigo, and -era Feist. A scan of his meticulously maintained website reveals a trove of hyperactive vaporwave under the name Memo Boy;"
"We wanted to buy mugwort, because we had become obsessed with the idea of lucid dreaming and were in dogged pursuit of any substance that could assist our attempts to move through our dreams with conscious intent. I can't say that the mugwort worked; the tea was disgusting and we couldn't successfully smoke it, because we didn't know about those magical little things called "rolling papers.""
Otto Benson's Peanut is a dusky, dusty sixth-ish album and the first to feature vocals, anchored by gentle nylon-string guitar and shivery Rhodes piano. The sound lands between Frankie Cosmos, Hayden Pedigo, and -era Feist, balancing intimacy and lo-fi warmth. Benson's catalog spans hyperactive vaporwave as Memo Boy, ambient music as Ronnie P, puckish hyperpop as OTTO, and collaborative beat tapes, showing a shapeshifting, form-conscious approach. Live performances have included self-built instruments, such as a robotic MIDI glockenspiel rig. The wordless opener "Mr. Peanut" uses a clattering kick to suggest motion away from past sonic noisiness toward lyrical focus.
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