Alternative
Topshelf Records · 11 November 2026
Peel Dream Magazine, the project led by songwriter Joseph Stevens, release an expanded edition of “Taurus” on 11 November. The collection of outtakes first came out on Topshelf Records on 1 October 2025 with eight tracks; it’s now twelve, adding “Blind Faith”, which was released as a single on 5 October, plus “Lot to Tell You”, “Ruins” and “Fear of the Other”. According to the band’s Bandcamp notes, all of the songs were originally recorded for “Rose Main Reading Room”, the full-length Topshelf put out on 4 September 2024, and the band say the set offers a wider glimpse into Stevens’ process during those sessions.
Stevens does almost everything: he wrote the music and lyrics, produced it and plays guitars, bass, keys and synths. Ian Gibbs plays drums on and co-produces three tracks, “The Band From Northampton”, “Seek and Destroy” and “Believer”; Olivia Babuka Black sings on the last of those, which is also the only one mixed by Omar Yakar rather than Stevens. Mastering is by Alan Douches and the cover art by Liz Moser.
It runs from “Venus In Nadir” to “Take It (Demo)”, close to 41 minutes, and the longest track is one of the new ones, “Blind Faith”, at over seven minutes. Besides the digital release, the band are selling it on cassette and on orange-and-white marbled vinyl, which is still listed as a pre-order on Bandcamp.
Text by Marçal Bonastre