Welcome everyone!

Ron S. Peno and The Superstitions have a new album, Guiding Light, and we've set up this Pozible page to help fund its release. You can preorder Guiding Light here and there are some nice rewards too (including signed cds and 12" vinyl, as well as ticket offers to The Superstitions' launch concerts in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney).

Cheers, 

Ron and the band xx

FREE SINGLE - just click on the link below to download "Just Like Diamonds", track 1 from Guiding Light. It's free!

Just Like Diamonds

Introducing Guiding Light, the transcendent third album from Ron S. Peno and the Superstitions. Guiding Light follows the critically acclaimed releases Future Universe (2011) and Anywhere and Everything is Bright (2013) as the purest expression of the band’s sweeping, propulsive chamber rock to date.

In recording these eight stirring journeys into the realms of uncertainty, remorse, restlessness and yearning, Ron S. Peno and the Superstitions brought the passion and grand atmospheres of their renowned live shows into the studio. The result is an album that’s urgent and unabashedly emotional, yet also exquisitely refined. In places it’s a surefire floor-filler, too.

Here, then, is that rarest of things: a record that hits the heart as hard as it hits the hips.

On ‘Over Again,’ Peno sings, “Outside, I’m riddled with doubt.” In here—on Guiding Light—he is a man completely in his element. Recorded at Northcote’s Soundpark Studios and mixed and mastered at The Mill by veteran craftsman Andy Stewart, Guiding Light finds the band’s incomparable energy and ingenuity coalescing around the finest collection of songs of their career. Crowd galvanisers like ‘Just Like Diamonds’ and ‘Kid Gloves’ are here, along with a blazing cover of Bobby Darin’s ‘Not for Me’.

These are songs that tug and needle at the most essential corners of the soul. Most have been finessed to perfection over the past few years while being performed live to adoring audiences in Australia, France and Spain. And it shows.

“We’re almost there,” Peno sings on the penultimate song. Listeners will beg to differ: with Guiding Light, Ron S. Peno and the Superstitions have arrived.

Rewards for this campaign include signed cds and 12" vinyl, as well as ticket offers to The Superstitions' launch concerts in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney.

You can listen to Guiding Light on Soundcloud:

For those who don't know about the group - Ron S. Peno and The Superstitions is the latest band for legendary Died Pretty vocalist and frontman, Ron S. Peno. The group’s dramatic, groove-driven live shows have won them an avid fanbase in Melbourne, and seen them touring Spain and France (including appearances at Brittany’s Binic Festival, in 2015 and 2016), performing always to rapturous audiences. Guiding Light is the band's third album, after Future Universe (2011) and Anywhere and Everything is Bright (2013).

Timeline:

Album release: October 9

Melbourne launch, Spotted Mallard: Nov 17

Brisbane launch, Bearded Lady: Dec 1

Sydney launch, Leadbelly: Dec 2

How The Funds Will Be Used

'Guiding Light' is a self-released album, with all costs covered by supporters and the band.

Funds from this campaign will go towards paying for publicity, artwork, post-production costs, mastering and interstate touring.

Publicity: $3500

Artwork: $600

Mastering: $600

Touring: $2300  

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Minimum total required: $7000

Any funds raised above this amount will go towards paying extra promotional costs and for further touring costs

Guiding Light is a self-released album so the only foreseeable challenge will be ensuring adequate funds are raised to enable its completion and successful promotion.

Thank you everyone for your interest in Guiding Light and this Pozible campaign.