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, and was hailed by Elysian Fields’ Oren Bloedow as “a very fine song album with echoes of Paul Simon and Robert Wyatt.” The follow-up, 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.”
WITHOUT A SINGLE FIGHT, the third Peaceful Faces album, was released in 2025 on Glamour Gowns Records, receiving notices from publications like PopMatters, NPR Music, and Earmilk.
The band has revolved throughout the years, but its current lineup comprises Palmedo alongside John Cushing (vocals and trombone), Alex Graff and Alden-Harris McCoy (guitars), Tony Solis (bass), Eli Cohen (drums), and Utsav Lal (keyboards).