Seattle’s Peyote Ugly Examines the Perils of Our Personal Blind and Collective Blind Spots on its New Single “Myopia”

PeyoteUgly3_sm — Peyote Ugly, photo courtesy the artists

“Myopia” by Seattle band Peyote Ugly sounds like a song about one’s own inability to see situations in our lives clearly until they’re right before us because we’re so focused on our own context most of the time. Our blind spots are often revealed to us when we’re least prepared to deal with the fallout, a phenomenon that seems to have run amok in the society at large from politicians, corporations and humans in general or maybe we’re just examining the things we refused to look at for years. The coruscating psychedelic riffs of “Myopia” express this cognitive dissonance perfectly as 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. Watch the video for “Myopia,” filmed and edited by Kyle Toda of the band Antonioni, on YouTube and follow Peyote Ugly at the links provided.