On A Healthy Earth, Brooklyn slowcore outfit Peaer’s 2019 breakout album, frontman Peter Katz sang songs about the present: being stuck in it, trying to figure it out and even wondering what his might be like across the multiverse.
Nearly seven years later, the trio is back with a new, more polished set of ponderings. Rather than searching across parallel worlds for alternatives to the crushing weight of now, though, Katz scans his own timeline. The titular Doppelgänger is not some interdimensional Peter Katz. It’s the very real past version of himself, and the (hopefully) real future one.
Songs like “No More Today” mark this shift, in which Katz rattles off the vices he plans on ditching. They get increasingly absurd,…