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Brittle EP

by pecq

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LYRICS Leaving me behind Couldn’t take lies for an answer You don’t know what to believe Tearing out the drive Things coulda been different Over and over I tried Over and over it Over and over I tried Over and over it And I wish that I had known All those years ago Don’t wanna be Don’t wanna be here And I wish that I had known All those years ago Ain’t gonna be Ain’t gonna be fair Taking so much time Catch a train, move away and change my last name Still don’t know how to live with this mess And I’m telling the same lies Will things ever be different Leaving me behind Leaving me behind Leaving me behind Leaving me behind Leaving me behind And I wish that I had known All those years ago Don’t wanna be Don’t wanna be here I wish that I had known All those years ago Ain’t gonna be Ain’t gonna be fair And I wish that I had known All those years ago Don’t wanna be Don’t wanna be here
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Brittle 03:37
LYRICS No-one told me My time is borrowed Brittle pieces Won’t last for tomorrow I’m not ready To be in your past Another broken object And heart What d’you want What d’you need What d’you want What d’you need In the end I can change I could stay Let me live out my days In the end In the end Come on love let’s Build this to last Come on love let’s Build this to last What d’you want What d’you need What d’you want What d’you need In the end What d’you want What d’you need What d’you want What d’you need In the end I can change I could stay Let me live out my days In the end In the end
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Too Far Gone 02:53
LYRICS What is the right thing to say? What’ll bring you back to earth? Too far gone, too far gone Too far now Too far gone, too far gone Too far now So easy Losing the way down So easy Finding you on the ground Tell you I’m still believing Gravity let’s you go You’re spinning away, I fall back Too far gone, too far gone Too far now Too far gone, too far gone Too far now So easy What was it all for So easy I couldn’t give you more Tell you I’m still believing So easy Losing the way down Easy Finding you on the ground Tell me you’re still believing Easy What was it all for I couldn’t give you, give you more Tell you I’m done believing
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LYRICS I’m always down to make the same mistakes twice I’m always down to make the same mistakes I’m always down I’m always down I’m always down to make the same mistakes I never thought I would go there I never thought you could find out (what I did) It’s in the back of my mind and It’s in the corner of my mouth How could I know The things you’d tell them How could i know The things you’d do Small hours of my false rebellion A haze and a cherryade to hide the truth I’m always down to make the same mistakes twice I’m always down to make the same mistakes I’m always down I’m always down I’m always down to make the same mistakes I’m always down I’m always down I’m always down I’m always down Scrubbing the wall in the morning All night you walk in the same spot (Stuck on it) Say you lost your keys in the garden But you weren’t looking down you looked up Trunk full of glass Driving slowly How could I know What you’d seen Just a little lie You looked too closely How could I know I’m always down to make the same mistakes twice I’m always down to make the same mistakes I’m always down I’m always down I’m always down to make the same mistakes I’m always down I’m always down I’m always down I’m always down

about

On March 11th, rising alt-pop duo pecq share their second EP Brittle. The new record follows widespread support from tastemakers including BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Spotify, Notion and Dummy.

While the duo have spent much of their career producing, recording and writing for other artists, making music has been a compulsive part of identity forging for pecq. For multi-instrumentalist producer and drummer Nikò O’Brien, growing up tri-lingual, dyslexic and with 4 nationalities, music created a home and language that made sense beyond words and place. For composer, songwriter and lead vocalist Hannah ‘Jakes’ Jacobs, it’s been a survival mechanism for the constant crashes and peaks of a complex, uncontrollable immune condition.

Reflecting on the artistic process behind their music, Jakes says:
‘We recognised this sort of uncanny valley approach in each other’s music when we met - the sense of going about something familiar in a strange way. I guess what happens when you’re figuring yourself out in isolation. Both of us grew up without much of a blueprint. Producing together really clicked for us and we worked on a lot of music for other people.

But it wasn’t until we intensified that isolation - hunkered down in our closed studio during lockdown - that we started writing in a properly collaborative way. Sharing that compulsion to create as a coping mechanism kinda concentrated our weird ways of working - we went into a deep prog wormhole, made a bunch of instruments that screamed and piled through a lot of emotions.

Out of that chaos came a bunch of songs with a strange clarity, digging into stuff we hadn’t dealt with before. The Brittle EP in particular goes back into a lot of teenhood isolation. We like the trajectory of working through complex emotions alone, but winding up in the aftermath of my first house party in ‘Same Mistakes’.

We worked with Zak Watson on the visual interpretation of that journey - a full EP length film - and he totally nailed the uncanny valley feeling. This character travels alone through a landscape that’s familiar but unsettling and supernatural, falling in and out of worlds until finally arriving at a place of community, acceptance and disco balls.’

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released March 11, 2022

CREDITS

Written and performed by pecq.
Produced by pecq and Upcycled Sounds.
Video by Zak Watson.
Artwork by pecq.

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pecq England, UK

Kaleidoscopic alt pop from pecq - multi-instrumentalist and producer duo Nikò O’Brien (FR/IT) and Hannah (Jakes) Jacobs (UK). pecq have been releasing their signature blend of analog synth scapes, crunchy drums, found sounds and arresting vocals since 2021 and been featured by the likes of BBC Radio 1, 2, 6, Bandcamp, Spotify and NOTION. ... more

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