Today, IS NOT MUSIC. announces Presque Tout: Variations no. 435-514 “Baseball Season,” a new release featuring three pieces written by Pegg and Van Dyke Parks. Pre-orders for Presque Tout are now available via Metalabel and Bandcamp as a 500-piece puzzle with a download, in a limited edition of 50. The Presque Tout puzzle is shipping now, but those in NYC can join Pegg and IS NOT MUSIC. at Secret Riso Club for the FREE Presque Tout Listening Lounge & Puzzle Party on June 5 from 6:30 to 9:30pm ET. The launch event will include a conversation about the project between Pegg’s Xander Duell and journalist Jesse Rifkin.

Pegg is the highly collaborative Brooklyn project helmed by Xander Duell. Pegg’s self-titled debut was released in August 2024, described by Gold Flake Paint as “reaching for something glittering just out of reach, and it all swells together alongside a classic-NYC-indie-rock heartbeat.” Pegg was produced by acclaimed indie artist Bartees Strange and award-winning Irish composer Alex Dowling.

Van Dyke Parks is a legendary arranger, composer, performer, and producer who has worked with artists ranging from Joanna Newsom to Bob Dylan, Skrillex to Haruomi Hosono, and most famously, with the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson on the “lost” album Smile. As Duell says, “Van Dyke Parks is on a short list of the most important names in American music of the 20th century. Talking to Van Dyke is like being shot up with antidepressants as you ride a horse through the Swiss Alps in late spring. I always considered him my musical godfather and I haven’t stopped pinching myself since the moment I heard he agreed to work with me.”