London-based producer and multi-instrumentalist duo pecq have released new single “freer”, out now via their own Upcycled Sounds label.
The latest single explores how grief sharpens our attention to the everyday, with lost loved ones’ presence woven in through inherited instruments and samples of old jam sessions. Sounds were recorded at different speeds, re-pitched and repeatedly resampled through tape loops, spring reverb and granular effects, reflecting the lyric “dissolved into everything”. The single leads towards their debut album.
Speaking on the single, the band explain: “‘freer’ is about the point in grief where you become hyper-connected to tiny moments around you and you start finding people you’ve lost ‘dissolved into everything’ – in nature, in the sudden quiet at the end of the night, in the wind on a street corner.
The track was written after both of us had a loved one take their own life. In each case, they had also been the person who was our most formative musical influence. We wanted to capture something about the bittersweet way loss can connect you as well as break you.”
Consisting of Hannah “Jakes” Jacobs and Niko O’Brien, the pair formed in a Paris basement and are now based in London, making exploratory electronic pop that sits between indie, experimental dance and ambient psychedelia. Having played The Great Escape and Glastonbury, alongside sold-out London headline shows, pecq will play an intimate headline show at SJQ in London on 9th November, showcasing new material. Tickets are available here.
Listen to and watch “freer” below.