Peaches

A song about those quiet, yet crumbling break-ups, Sasha & the Bear's new single "Peaches" will reach for the dark corners of your heart. The first time I heard the song, I got this feel of long-forgotten unease.

Sasha & the Bear is an indie duo formed in Brooklyn by friends Sasha Daniel and Dov Igel. United by a shared emotional language and instinct for restraint, the two began collaborating in 2016, releasing a handful of indietronica tracks before life took them on separate paths, for a while that is. After Sasha left New York, Dov turned his focus toward solo electronic work under the name DOV, so the project went quiet. In 2021, following the loss of Dov’s mother, the two found their way back to each other, returning to writing from a deeper, more exposed place. Living in different locations, they began meeting in remote cabins around the world to write and record, allowing isolation and the energy of each place to be engraved in their sound. They recorded in the north of Europe, then Madrid, followed by a session in the Netherlands.

Created in the Portuguese countryside, "Peaches" is the soundtrack of the lonesome aftermath of abandonment. That strange in-between where nothing visibly happens, yet everything has already shifted.

This is the third single from Sasha & the Bear's forthcoming debut album, scheduled for release in the summer of 2026, and I couldn't be more excited about it. I think this is a prime example of what the project will be - an ongoing fascination with intimacy, distance, and the traces people leave behind.