released today: the debut album from The Peace Race, a duo of producers / songwriters Pascal Gabriel and Jim Eliot

limited CD and unlimited digital editions now available at mortalitytables.bandcamp.com

THE PEACE RACE ‘SHELTER’

Shelter is the debut album from The Peace Race.

The Peace Race is a duo of Pascal Gabriel and Jim Eliot, two producers and songwriters who met in 2008 while they were both working separately on songs for the first Ladyhawke album.

The origins of the 11 tracks included on Shelter began in 2020. With no idea how it might land, Jim decided to reach out to Pascal and suggested something he’d named ‘Synth-Pop Mondays’: at the start of each week, the pair would connect for three hours and come up with the seed of an idea, just through mucking around with their respective synth collections. They’d then go away and work on the idea independently, before coming back together again at the start of the next week to share what they’d each come up with.

Shelter is an album that was never supposed to be an album. Neither Pascal nor Jim saw it as anything more than just a fun way of working together with no agenda, no deadline, no labels, no pop singers and no expectations. It was only when Pascal sent Jim his version of the effervescent dance track ‘As It Happens’, the first track they worked on, that the duo realised they should probably commit to seeing where else the process might lead them.

The album’s euphoric first single, ‘Something From Nothing’, followed, with Jim’s vocals summing up the creative collaboration they’d embarked on through the series of Monday synth-pop jam sessions: of powerful and emotive ideas emerging from the blank sheet of paper that each Monday morning offered. That collaborative process would take them from the jerky, shouty post-punk of ‘Disconnected’, through the relentless motorik pulse of ‘Sternengucker’ and onward toward the haunting emotional journey of ‘Wonderful’

“Been here, but it feels so new,” sings Jim on ‘Love Affair’. It is a sentiment that dominates this album. Both Pascal and Jim are seasoned collaborators. Together they have worked with some of the pop world’s biggest stars, and produced some exceptionally memorable hits. Your playlists are more than likely filled with songs they’ve written and produced. Yet The Peace Race offered them something like a release, a different type of creative energy, and an opportunity to dig into their respective influences freely.

“I really like having someone to muck around with,” says Jim. “Both Pascal and I are used to working completely on our own, but working together as The Peace Race means I have someone to bounce things off. When you’re working with another person, it feels you can have a commentary and a dialogue about what it is that you’re making. It’s no longer just your brain, and I think that’s really important in a creative process.”

What began with Jim’s idea for a casual Monday musical hang-out has become, in the words that gave the album its title, their shelter. It is a place they can occupy where they can be themselves, making music for no one but each other. That approach has produced an album that brings together their ability to craft attention-grabbing, hook-filled pop tracks while also allowing them the time, space and freedom to apply layers of intricate sounds and textures.

“There’s a lot of detail in these songs, and we always add a lot of stuff that’s there in the background if you listen really closely,” says Pascal. “I love to do that when I work on music. Jim works that way too, which is why these songs sound like they do and why we were able to work together so easily on Shelter. For both of us, the detailing is every bit as important as the things that hit you straight away.”

Shelter is released today on limited CD and unlimited digital editions, exclusively from mortalitytables.bandcamp.com

Tracklist:
1. Wonderful
2. Something From Nothing
3. Infinite Fields
4. Love Affair
5. Blackest Blue
6. Disconnexted
7. I Won’t Let You Down
8. Sternengucker
9. As It Happens
10. Sleep Tight
11. Rise

The Peace Race are Pascal Gabriel and Jim Eliot

Recorded at Scabby Road (UK) and Bohemia Sound (FR)
Written and produced by The Peace Race
Published by Kobalt Music / Copyright Control
Mastered by Audio Animals
Design by Neil Coe

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digital and limited CD editions available now through mortalitytables.bandcamp.com

PASCAL GABRIEL

Maverick songwriter and producer Pascal Gabriel’s career has spanned 30 years so far. His credits include S-Express’s number one hit ‘Theme from S-Express’, Bomb The Bass’s landmark album ‘Beat Dis’, EMF’s multi-platinum ‘Schubert Dip’, as well as Dido’s ‘Here With Me’ and ‘No Angel’. Later hits include tracks with Kylie, Ladyhawke, Will Young, Goldfrapp, Marina And The Diamonds, Miss Kittin, Little Boots, Emma Louise and The Temper Trap. With his solo project Stubbleman, Pascal has released two albums on Crammed Discs / PIAS to critical acclaim.JIM ELIOT

Jim Eliot is an English songwriter and producer who has had eight UK top 10 singles alongside much international success.

Hailing from an indie / electronic background with his band Kish Mauve, he is able to successfully straddle indie, pop and electronic music, while maintaining pop sensibilities with credible production and presentation.

Jim’s key releases include ‘Anything Could Happen’ by Ellie Goulding which, to date, has sold over one million copies in the US, ‘Pound Cake’ by Drake ft. Jay Z, ‘Glitterball’ by Sigma ft. Ella Henderson, ‘Dear Darlin’ & UK number one single ‘Heart Skips A Beat’ by Olly Murs, ‘All The Lovers’ and ‘Two Hearts’ by Kylie Minogue. Jim also contributed to Tom Grennan’s number one album ‘Evering Road’, co-writing ‘It Hurts’.

Recent collaborations include multiple cuts with Irish folk band Kingfishr from the number one album Halcyon. Jim is currently writing with Paloma Faith, Tom Rasmussen, Take That, Ice Dob, myohmy and James Arthur.

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