Peyote Ugly is a Seattle-based psychedelic rock band formed in 2015, consisting of:
Elliot Preston
guitar / vocals
Brennan Moring
synth / vocals
Sebastian Brown Glad
bass / vocals
Connor Johnson
drums
“Seattle’s Peyote Ugly is a dreamy psyche-wave quartet that fuses shimmery vocals, spacy synths, and large, melodic guitar riffs with a smidge of indie-pop. Their musical stylings collide at a sweet spot of art rock where the proto-prog-psychedelia vertices of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Blue Oyster Cult’s “The Reaper” (without the cowbell) meet the modern hallucinatory harmonics of Tame Impala’s “The Less I Know the Better” and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s “Slow Jam 1.” Peyote’s expansive soundscapes are well thought out and supported by rich lyrics that explore storylines with abstract, metaphysical themes.”
– Megan Perry; Music Connection
“Sparkling riffs wind through a kaleidoscope of extrasolar sounds — the stuff of aquatic-dreams that invites and lulls anyone within earshot into a host of distant worlds. Peyote Ugly is a band that envelops you and fully invites you in.”
– Kelly Fleek; Lo Flux Media
“Maybe no song on the EP represents their sound better than “Stranger.” The track highlights the band’s greatest asset: subtlety. They clearly have the prowess to turn into a heavy, maximalist jam at any point, yet choose to take the desert road less traveled. Air synthesizers glisten over the steady chop of the guitar and the roll of the drums. Hints of twangy slide guitar eventually pop in later in the mix, adding a pained sense of melancholy to the song.”
– Dusty Henry; KEXP
“Peyote Ugly channel shades of Built to Spill, The Posies and Dinosaur Jr while in the end casting itself in a different mold of its own making. The fiery guitar work and the subtle and dynamic atmospheres and emotional awareness informing the lyrics are a refreshingly rare pairing.”‘
– simianthinker; Queen City Sounds and Art