If shapes & colors invited listeners into abracadabra’s vibrant neighbourhood of hope and resistance, peel away opens the front door and welcomes them directly into the conversation. The Oakland duo’s new EP, released 7th August on Melodic, is their most intimate collection yet: six songs that sift through luck, privilege, repair, abundance, anger, and self-reflection, wrapped in the project’s signature blend of psych-pop, leftfield electronics, dubby grooves, and playful sonic experimentation. There are echoes of Talking Heads, ESG, Tom Tom Club, Stereolab, and Arthur Russell in the mix, but abracadabra's greatest strength remains their ability to turn complex ideas into joyful communal experiences.
That same spirit of self-examination drives lead single "face card," which questions the myth of self-made success. "'face card' asks the question: do you really think you earned all you've got by yourself, and that you should keep it all for yourself?" says vocalist, Hannah Skelton. "What if those of us who received such fateful benevolence schemed about a way to bring it to a larger scale? Let's grow a lush world together."
Warm, curious, and quietly radical, peel away finds abracadabra asking difficult questions while holding firmly onto hope. As Skelton puts it: "I'd sure love to look around me and see a bunch of thriving humans, wouldn't you?"
abracadabra Live Dates 2026
20 August - Congés Annulés at Rotondes, Luxembourg
22 August - Baignade Sauvage, Tarn, France
23 August - Dabadaba, San Sebastián, Spain
24 August - Madrid, Spain
peel away will be the first in Melodic's new series of limited housebag CDs, hand stamped and numbered on greyboard digipack with printed art and fold out zine, very limited to 50 copies.
