Brittle EP by pecq

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.’

Tracklist

1.	Over and Over	3:03

2.	Brittle	3:38

3.	Too Far Gone	2:54

4.	Same Mistakes	3:17

Credits

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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