Daiana Feuer on February 24th, 2017

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Digging up two tunes that initially entered the universe a year ago, Peaking Lights today releases the “Little Flower” 12-inch on the duo’s own label, Two Flowers, run by Indra Dunis, which will also be the home of Peaking Lights’ fifth record, a double-album due this summer.

“Little Flower” was originally commissioned by Michel Gaubert as part of a series featured during NYC fashion week Valentine’s Day 2016. Founders of Los Angeles based perfume brand Régime des Fleurs Alia Raza and Ezra Woods wrote a poem about cult figures inspired by their adoration for Saint Therese and Chloe Sevigny, “Prayer to Saint Thérèse,” enlisting fashion DJ Gaubert to score the piece and enlist musicians to create their own versions. Other remixes were created by SoulWax, Io Echo, JD Twitch, The Love & Trust Collective, Johnny Jewel, and Dukes of Chutney, and, of course, Sevigny as reader.

Speaking on their creation, Peaking Lights say, “Coming of age in the Eighties and Nineties, we’ve been fans of Chloe’s for many years. She has such a distinct voice and a cadence with her presentation of words to be enamored by. It’s rare that the pieces come together so easily but it did, it really just fell out of the hat the way it is, like a little flower grows, healed by St. Therese.”

The B-side of the 12-inch is “Conga Blue,” released last March digitally, but on wax for the first time now. Clocking in at 120bpm, Dunis sings “through dark and doom can flowers bloom?” Flowers are the uniting theme for this disco disc.

||| Stream: “Little Flower”

||| Also: “Conga Blue”