transeclectic.

prettyinscarlett

Beating out the plethora of shows on offer at Bluesfest, not to mention the giants that were at this year's Jazzfest and Folkfest, The PepTides turned the tide on the competition with their Best Live Show 2011winner.

XPRESS - Best Of 2011

Imagine the B-52's crossed with the Manhattan Transfer and backed by Arcade Fire.

JAZZBLOGGER - The Ottawa Citizen

...something that may have been performed by a dark and twisted Judy Garland.
 

METRO NEWS

Without the slightest of blinks this joins the list of the best albums of 2010 and in the top tier. 

Kingdom Of Uza

The PepTides are infectious. Once you hear their avant-garde ballads there's no going back to regular pop  - Ashley McConnell
 

g-GALLERY

...I felt like I was being bludgeoned in the ears by someone who couldn't stop talking about how clever they were.

i heart music

For Those Who Hate Human Interaction, le top CD artistes locaux 2010.

Guillaume Moffet - VOIR

For Those Who Hate Human Interaction - Best Album of 2010.

Peter Simpson - OTTAWA CITIZEN

Ottawa's genre-bending band The PepTides...the sound is retooled retro - romantic ballads, jazz, opera-lite, film noir - awash in image-conscious glitter & grief

OTTAWA MAGAZINE

"...like an old hollywood soundtrack of a musical that has fallen from space or a weird dream you've had of Studio 54...incredible."

Adam Saikaley - CBC RADIO

What do you get when you mix the B-52’s with a dash of Stanley Kubrick’s madness...

THE FULCRUM

For Those Who Hate Human Interaction is one of the most original and crazy-ass albums I’ve heard in years. (8.5/10)

Daniel Paquette - FAB MAGAZINE Album Review

...It’s a crazy mish-mash of styles and instruments that defies categorization, and it’s so confident, so brassy and devil-may-care that it almost beggars belief coming from a relatively obscure, local band. Who are the Peptides, and how did they get so damned good?
 

Peter Simpson - OTTAWA CITIZEN - Album Review

...un voyage auditif schizophrénique où iconoclasme rime avec commentaire social, qui se révèle hors de tout doute le seul album concept 100 % made in Ottawa jamais créé.

Guillaume Moffet - LE VOIR

...an audacious undertaking spanning copious music styles (funk, cabaret, vaudeville, cock-rock, lounge - you name it), delivered with a dash of moxie, a sprinkle of sass and marinated in plenty of savvy. Like K-tel records of old, it is 25 psychedelic fantastic hit explosions! 

John Sekerka - XPRESS

...they infuse every moment with haunting beauty.

COVERMESONGS.COM

...fait feu dans tous les sens...de textes irrévérencieux et pince-sans-rire couchés sur des musiques pleines de trouvailles...

LE VOIR - Album Review

It’s everything I want to hear in music without sounding like a musical mutt

Doug Ralph, Host 'Do You Hear What I Hear', CHUO FM

refreshingly bizarre

GUERILLA MAGAZINE

... poppy tendencies, heavy on the vocal harmonies and indie moxie, not so much folk as borderline torchsong experimentalists with a background in a capella music ... there's more to this band than just a schtick and a lipstick kiss.

COVERLAYDOWN

Not classic Dylan folk, but retro in the way you liked taking acid and enjoying "free love" and wearing platform shoes. I can't put my finger on it, as my finger is too busy tapping to the music

SLOWCOUSTIC

Like Beck's "Odelay", The Peptides have released a masterful, genre-bending sophomore album that throws quirk-folk, noir-pop, party grooves, and bubblegum playfulness into a boiling pot of sonic madness steeped in the sounds of classic records from the past 5 decades.

CDBABY Editors Pick

...dangerously addictive...    

XTRA