Peaches drives with her feet
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Angry, wet and sexy, Peaches returns to an Orlando stage to feel up the crowd (and herself).

After a decade of touring with dance troupes and focusing on the visual and performance arts, Canadian electroclash artist Peaches, born Merrill Nisker, is kicking off a world tour in Florida with the release of her new album, No Lube So Rude.

Nisker established herself as a queer, sexually transgressive artist in 2000 in a big way with her salaciously classic debut, The Teaches of Peaches. Her music, seductive and filthy, pushed the boundaries of the norm upon its initial release.

No Lube So Rude, Peaches’ first new album in 10 years, encapsulates all the things fans expect of the post-menopausal queer icon: bodily autonomy, explicit sexuality and naked desire. The first track of the album, “Hanging Titties,” opens the album with a message loud and clear to listeners: that joy, confidence and feeling sexy do not go away with age.

“You hear all these songs about, like, ‘My titties are cute and they’re perky and everything,’ and I’m like, ‘Mine hang and you love that.’ Gravity’s caught up with me and let’s go. And ‘Older than you and looking so cunt,’ just like — owning it,” Nisker tells Orlando Weekly.

Peaches eats lobster
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Peaches’ album art has always featured parts of her body. The cover for No Lube So Rude pays homage to her first album cover … but more lubey. 

“I liked all the veininess and the grit of it,” says Nisker. The artist-exclusive pressing of the album on vinyl even comes in a veiny print.

The album challenges social taboos around aging and the female body, embracing it while also jabbing at the greater politics that support the negativity that surrounds it. The song “Panna Cotta Delight” celebrates sexuality beyond the years that popular norms define as “sexy.”

“I want them to know that it’s not just about now, that it’s going to continue on, and you have to feel good about aging. It’s not like your life is over; you can live it the way you need to,” Nisker says. 

The vulgarity of a Peaches album has yet to lessen, despite the intervening decade. Her songs do not shy away from the politics that have come to threaten the very things Peaches has been vouching for throughout her creative career. Her new album’s sixth track, the song “Fuck How You Wanna Fuck,” directly calls out Brett Kavanaugh and his key role in overturning Roe v. Wade in the first two verses. 

Nisker reveals that she’s frequently asked if her music is political, in part because of her work’s championing of personal agency. Songs from No Lube So Rude, like “Not In Your Mouth None of Your Business,” are anthems of unapologetic joy and self-empowerment. Nisker believes that expression of the body is made out to be political by others because of a patriarchal upbringing. 

“I get asked a lot, ‘Do you feel like your music is political?’ And I think I’m just reacting to the way the political climate has made me because I want equal pay for everybody,” says Nisker. “I want people to all have their human rights. I want everybody to be able to have affordable healthcare. I don’t think that’s political. I think that’s a human right. That’s just humanity.” 

While loudly calling out the state of global justice, Nisker’s album is an optimistic collection of upbeat, vibrant anthems that are defiant against forces of hatred and oppression. She explains that energy is essential in fighting against the structures pushing people down. 

“I want people to be aware and be in touch with everything that’s going on and I understand that people are angry, but I want to bring joy to it and understanding in a way that we can go through this and still have a smile, not to like negate anything that [anybody’s] going through, but just to give us a little bit of grace while we’re doing this,” she says. 

The album is dirty, gritty and unapologetically sexual, embracing identity, pleasure and an overall feeling of freedom. Peaches wants you to be your best and most authentic, unapologetic self.

“Obviously, there is trepidation around everything that’s going on, but I don’t want it to stop people from being who they need to be, and to live their lives, live their best lives,” Nisker says.

Tour preparations have been in the works for “forever.” The artistry of Peaches lies not only in her licentious lyricism and electric sound, but also in her visuals and performance concepts. Her team began with the costuming for the tour, going to an opera clearance sale and purchasing secondhand costumes. 

“Opera picks incredible fabrics, and they make them so that they’re easy to get on and off, because of like, quick changes and things like that,” Nisker says. “So then I had Charlie Le Mindu, who does my hair and also is my costume director, he brought two other people with him, and fucked all those costumes up to make them something different. … We were being very sustainable and also just using the tools that were already there.”

Nisker isn’t touring with a band, but she’s hauling analog gear to mix sound and dancers to enhance the sweat-soaked vibes. She’s aiming to make a vibrant, memorable experience for her multigenerational fan base. 

“I want you to enjoy your bodily autonomy. I want you to feel creative. I want you to feel alive. I want you to feel joy and anger. I want you to be inspired. You don’t have to be who I am or do what I do, but I hope that it helps to make you feel something,” says Nisker. “I want you to also have this experience of these live shows, which are so important to me, because I want people to have this experience of being together. I think people my age really have this experience of being in rooms together and have this tradition of — if I can use the word tradition — of being together and experiencing creativity in real time. And I want this intergenerational opportunity between Gen Z to, like, Gen X. Maybe there are some Baby Boomers.”

Peaches looks in a mirror
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In her shows, in her music and in her art, Nisker is hoping to spark joy and urges her fans to embrace that feeling. The energy and vibrance of her art and what she hopes to see in her fans, young and old, is what she wants to also see reflected in their cries for action and change in global politics. 

“There’s no revolution if there’s no joy. You need to bring the joy, or else, if you’re just bringing the anger, that’s what they want. They want us just to be angry, they want us to feel defeated,” Nisker says, concluding her teaches. “Yes, bring the anger, because that’s the energy, but you also have to feel good.”

6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21

The Beacham   

46 N. Orange Ave. 

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$31-$146

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This article appears in Feb. 18-24, 2026.