Peppermint Moon Returns: Band Unveils New Single ‘Get Off Your Knees’ & Announces Upcoming Album
Colin Schlitt did the thing artists rarely admit to, let alone enact: he erased his own work. His second album, released in haste and then swiftly withdrawn, was scrubbed from the internet and subjected to a kind of creative controlled demolition.
What followed was a return to the workshop for reconstruction. ‘The Flipside’ emerges from that process as a reclamation rather than a revision…music rebuilt from first principles, its nerve endings exposed. At its center sits ‘Get Off Your Knees,’ a track animated by garage-fuzz abrasion and a refusal to collapse inward.
The song took shape amid a particularly bleak news cycle, the sort of atmosphere that often pushes songwriters toward acoustic introspection. Schlitt moved in the opposite direction, choosing voltage over withdrawal. ‘Get Off Your Knees’ surges as a heavy-riffing psych-rocker, its cosmic guitar spirals cutting against a palpable undercurrent of anxiety. “I was literally telling myself, ‘Don’t get jaded. Get off your knees! This is scary, but we will get through it,’” Schlitt says. That self-addressed mantra is embedded in its texture, vibrating through every saturated chord.
Operating under the banner of Peppermint Moon, Schlitt treats the studio as a one-person laboratory, stacking lysergic sonics with a wit that borders on the caustic. The song’s sharpest turn arrives in its second verse: “Something’s wrong, but I am feeling strong / Just like King Kong, if he still lived with his mom!” The line lands as a deadpan rupture, simultaneously absurd and pointed. Whether Kong is imagined as a mythic brute buoyed by maternal care or exposed as a stunted pretender is left unresolved, but the hook lodges itself all the same.
Anchored melodically to the Beatles and the serrated art-pop intelligence of Elvis Costello, ‘Get Off Your Knees’ signals a moment of real momentum. It’s kind of an evidence of an artist willing to dismantle his own work in pursuit of something more alive.
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