About the band
A Brooklyn-based six-piece that combines finger-picked guitar with fanfare-ish brass arrangements, Peaceful Faces began as the solo project of trumpeter, songwriter, and singer Tree Palmedo, who has appeared on tours and recordings with bands as diverse as Fleet Foxes, Tredici Bacci, The World Is A Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, Sloppy Jane, and Ben Zaidi.
The band’s debut album, Letters from Late Adolescence, arrived in early 2020, just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was recorded with the help of Elio DeLuca, Chris Krasnow, Eva Lawitts, and Alec Spiegelman, and was hailed by Elysian Fields’ Oren Bloedow as “a very fine song album with echoes of Paul Simon and Robert Wyatt.” During pandemic lockdowns, the group remotely recorded an EP, Staring at the Damage, that was released in 2021.
The second Peaceful Faces album, Sifting Through The Goo, Reaching For The Candlelight, was released in March 2023, and was hailed by Mp3Hugger as “A proper opus…beautiful effort with some Belle & Sebastian and Mercury Rev in there,” while Dusty Organ described the music as “adventurous and multi-layered.”