Peaer returns with ‘End of the World’ ahead of long-awaited LP
Peaer release their new single ‘End of the World,’ out now as the final preview of their upcoming album doppelgänger, due this Friday via Danger Collective.
The New York–based project led by Peter Katz shares ‘End of the World’ as the opening track from doppelgänger, marking the band’s first album release in nearly seven years. The single leans into Peaer’s familiar blend of math-pop precision and melodic clarity, pairing bright, clean guitar lines with dynamic shifts and tightly wound rhythms. While the song follows a more traditional pop structure, its arrangement plays with transitions, chord melodies, and dynamics, maintaining a sense of unease beneath its polished surface. Lyrically, the track captures modern paranoia and overthinking, grounding abstract anxiety in everyday digital fears.
Katz says of the track:
“‘End of The World’ was inspired by a time that i thought I got hacked and had my identity stolen. i feel as if i am relatively internet and tech-savvy, but this was a pretty convincing email! they said that they had all my data and information and were going to delete it all if I didn’t pay them some amount of bitcoin. I’d heard of that happening to people (I think on a podcast?) so it did have me kind of spiral. I didn’t end up doing anything about it and it went away. Its not like i have many valuable assets that anyone would really want to steal in the first place. Regardless, the feeling of paranoia in the modern age definitely influenced my lyrics on this one. It started with the first few lines which I thought are pretty illustrative of an over-thinker (‘the distance between each step/the duration of each breath’). Musically, the song ended up being a more traditional pop-structure, but we had a lot of fun tinkering with the transitions, dynamics, and chord melodies to make it a bit more rewarding to play and listen to. Sonically, it still feels very bright, while the subject matter remains in a paranoid, unsettled place.”
‘End of the World’ is available now to stream and download on all major platforms.
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