Pecq members Hannah Jacobs and Nicholas O’Brien have busy musical lives outside of the project. Jacobs plays keys in Arlo Parks’ live band, while O’Brien is a producer, multi-instrumentalist and engineer who has worked with artists including Liz Fraser and Porij. Despite this, they have managed to turn out a steady stream of great alt-pop singles and EPs as Pecq over the last two years.
Their latest offering is a single called ‘Out Loud’, a fairly subdued track in most of its instrumentation and Jacobs’ vocal delivery that is given a sense of nervous urgency through drum n bass influenced percussion.
"‘Out Loud' is about not being able to tell someone how you feel about them”, says Jacobs. “As a queer kid with loads of immune problems, I learnt to pretty early on hide a lot of myself for self-preservation and music was always my place to get stuff out”.
“This song is reflecting on the weight of repeatedly keeping things secret and I guess acknowledging that it doesn’t really work - feelings get stranger and bigger the longer you bury them, and grow into a force of their own that moves you forward whether you like it or not”.
“We wanted to create that feeling of this hidden thing trying to creep out”, she goes on. “There are lots of little moments of peaks trying to rise up and then getting cut down, drums trying to settle and then getting broken up”.
Listen to ‘Out Loud’ below.
