Peter Raffoul

artist

Growing up in the small Canadian town Leamington, ON, Raffoul first embraced his stream-of-consciousness approach to songwriting in his late teens, spending countless hours teasing out songs in the shed behind his family’s home. The product of a highly musical family – his father Jody has played in rock bands for over three decades while brother Billy is himself a singer-songwriter signed to Interscope – Raffoul unveiled his debut EP, Songs From House in Blue, in 2022, showcasing a hypnotic tension between raw emotionality and a wildly unpredictable sound informed by everything from late-’80s college rock and left-of-center hip-hop to soulful balladry and The Beatles’ excursions into dreamy psychedelia. With “Book Club” – and new songs still to come – Peter Raffoul reveals an undeniable genius for transforming pain into beauty, a gift endlessly magnified by the pure warmth and power of his powerful voice.

“Most of my songs are about admitting that things are far from perfect,” says Peter Raffoul, “but to me there’s hopefulness in that. I think it’s possible to find comfort in being uncomfortable, as long as you know you’re not the only one who doesn’t have it all figured it out. I want to let people know that it’s okay to be happy and sad at the same time – and that instead of trying to ignore those uncomfortable feelings, we should try to make the most of them.”