Peregrine is the sixth studio album by indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 band The Appleseed Cast

The Appleseed Cast

The Appleseed Cast is an American emo/post-rock band based in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, composed of singer/guitarist Christopher Crisci , guitarist Aaron Pillar, bassist Nathan Whitman and drummer John Momberg...

, released on March 21 2006 on The Militia Group

The Militia Group

-History:The Militia Group was founded in 1998 by Chad Pearson as a booking agency, booking for artists such as Slick Shoes, Craig's Brother, Dogwood, twothirtyeight, Acceptance, and Element 101. Rory Felton and Chad Pearson partnered in 2000 to turn the booking agency into a record company...

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The recording sessions for Peregrine were held in Cannon Falls, Minnesota at Pachyderm Recording Studios. The sessions were produced by John Congleton, as opposed to their regular producer Ed Rose. The band returned from the studio later that year and began mixing and mastering the 13 new songs recorded for the album.

Peregrine is the band's first album with new drummer Nathan "Nate Jr." Richardson, formerly of The Casket Lottery

The Casket Lottery

The Casket Lottery is a three-piece indie rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, United States signed to Second Nature Recordings.-1997:The band started in 1997 after Nathan Ellis spent time on the road with Coalesce. He and Stacy Hilt struck up an instant friendship and love for music beyond the...

, who replaced Josh "Cobra" Baruth. Lyrically, it brings the band back to the unified concept idea first explored on Mare Vitalis

Mare Vitalis

Mare Vitalis is the second full-length album by Lawrence, Kansas-based emo group the Appleseed Cast, released on Deep Elm Records in 2000...

. The lyrics apparently tell the haunting story of Peregrine, a girl who is murdered by her father and who comes back to haunt him as a ghost.

Musically, the album is a mixture of atmospheric, Low Level Owl

Low Level Owl

Low Level Owl can refer to either of two albums by The Appleseed Cast:*Low Level Owl, Vol. 1, released on August 21, 2001.*Low Level Owl, Vol. 2, released on October 23, 2001....

-indebted instrumentals ("Ceremony," "An Orange and a Blue," "The Clock and the Storm"), tense, electronica-inflected songs ("Mountain Halo," "Woodland Hunter (Part 2)"), driving guitar rock ("February," "A Fate Delivered") and songs which return the band to their now-signature mixture of post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

atmospherics with subtle arpeggiating guitar hooks and complex drumming ("Sunlit and Ascending," "Here We Are (Family in the Hallways)" and "Song 3.") As such, Peregrine might be the Appleseed Cast's most eclectic release to date, while maintaining their distinctive sound.

Track listing

1. "Ceremony" – 4:17
2. "Woodland Hunter (Part 1)" – 3:16
3. "Here We Are (Family in the Hallways)" – 3:40
4. "Silas' Knife" – 4:08
5. "Mountain Halo" – 4:09
6. "Sunlit and Ascending" – 4:01
7. "February" – 3:51
8. "An Orange and a Blue" – 4:11
9. "Song 3" – 5:00
10. "Woodland Hunter (Part 2)" – 4:30
11. "Peregrine" – 4:06
12. "A Fate Delivered" – 3:53
13. "The Clock and the Storm" – 5:54