Grant Peeples

• It's Later Than You Think [grantpeeples.com, 2008] ★★
• Pawnshop [Gatorbone, 2009] ★★
• Bad Wife [Rootball, 2020] ★★★
• A Murder of Songs [self-released, 2023] ★★
• Code to Live By [Ping, 2025] A

Consumer Guide Reviews:

It's Later Than You Think [grantpeeples.com, 2008]
Natural-born naysayer returns to north Florida, combats depression by describing what he sees ("Sunshine State," "OD Holton, 1979"). ★★

Pawnshop [Gatorbone, 2009]
"Garbage burning in the yard, a rebel flag waves/Car on blocks, a pit bull chained/All the sheriff's deputies know his name" ("Real Country," "Jesus Was a Revolutionary"). ★★

Bad Wife [Rootball, 2020]
With nary a pronoun switch, male artist sings 11 first-person songs by women of small renown, the first half dozen a steely bunch who've obviously known too many men for too damn long ("Unsustainable," "Bad Wife," "3:52 a.m.") ★★★

A Murder of Songs [self-released, 2023]
Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke--assuming a joke is what it is ("Insurrection Song [January 6]," "Liberal With a Gun," "Let's Start Killing Each Other") ★★

Code to Live By [Ping, 2025]
You want patter? Here's how this Florida veteran begins a spoken-word piece called "The Ledger," which I quote at length to prepare you for the most explicitly leftist album I've come across in far too long. "You don't need to live under Vladimir Putin to recognize the stink of tyranny wafting out of the Oval Office. You Don't need a Ph.D in kleptocracy to know what looting with an American flag pin on a suit lapel looks like. And you don't need to be a criminologist to know that our entire government is now operating like a Mafia syndicate. No, just follow the boots, the bans, the buzzwords, the book burnings, and the body bags. What we're watching isn't chaos, it's choreography—a state-sponsored smash-and-grab with a patriotism decal slapped on the window." Yes, there's more. Buy it all. A