Track By Track: L.A. Peach - ‘Welcome To L.A. Peach’ EP
London collective L.A. Peach have just released their ‘Welcome To L.A. Peach’ EP. Taking on the guise of a trashy 80’s house band - this EP marks the group’s first cumulative effect and showcases their slinky charisma, tireless hustle and stellar songwriting to full effect.
They took a moment to talk to us about the EP - track by track.
Power Trip:
The lyrical content of the song came from a bad trip to a bar where there was yet another seedy bartender. The first piece of music written was actually the opening vocal melody, from that Morgan created an entire song. And as soon as he sent over the intro with that massive synth we knew it had to open the record.
We’ve all had bad experience’s in bars where the bartender scoffs when you ask for a normal lager because you don’t want the latest IPA. Or, to put it better, we’ve all walked into a Brewdog and left immediately.
Power Trip is Olivia’s favourite song!
Amateur:
Morgan created a found-sound disco track influenced heavily by Fiona Apple’s Fetch the Bolt Cutters. Instruments including using Avatar The Last Airbender graphic novel as a kick drums, a potato peeler hi-hat, and a cocktail shaker filled with rice as a shaker. And also, an absolutely wild bass line, that became the lead vocal melody in the chorus.
Lyrically, it’s about how love and lust can be combined. The boring old trope of a honeymoon period in relationships, everyone seems to buy into it. Find some good hard love and love it forever, that’s what I say.
Unsurprisingly, Amateur is my favourite song!
Bottomless Brunch:
Bottomless Brunch is our most out-and-out pop song. It’s light n breezy, with a truly outstanding saxophone! This was the first song of these set of songs that had harmonies in, I’d never been particularly good at writing them before and this song helped me get my foot in the door!
Lyrically it’s a straight up song about sex. Similar subject matter to Amateur but just through the lens of a 70’s pop song.
Bottomless Brunch is Morgan and Jake’s favourite song!
Forever Don’t Sound Long:
It was only after we recorded FDSL that Jake asked me what the lyrics were about. I thought it was glaringly obvious that the song was about getting terrible tattoos, but it turns out he thought it was a love song. Which makes his interpretation of the lyric ‘didn’t your parents tell you, no tattoos before you turn 17’ very confusing…
I’ve got quite a few stupid tattoos that I love, so you know, I’m not poking fun at anyone. I’m with you. We bad!
Forever Don’t Sound Long is my favourite song to play live - a proper slow jam!
