London alt-pop pairing pecq have shared new single ‘out loud’.
The duo – Nicholas (Nikò) O’Brien and Hannah (Jakes) Jacobs – have extensive experience within music, having played with the likes of Mercury winner Arlo Parks, amongst others. pecq is a free-flowing space for experimentation, a vehicle for some of their truest thoughts, and the most emotional aspects of their musicality.
Set to support Chartreuse at London’s Lafayette on November 16th, pecq have just slipped a new single out into the ether. Skittering electronics, ‘out loud’ seems to deconstruct pop tropes, offering something exploratory in the process.
Continually challenging themselves, the spaces opened up by ‘out loud’ are matched to lyrics that explore queer identity, repression, and the eventual realisation of truth.
Quietly empowering, the song highlights their emotive maturity. pecq comment…
“‘out loud’ is about not being able to tell someone how you feel about them. 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 things trying to creep out – there’s lot of little moments of peaks trying to rise up and then getting cut down, drums trying to settle and then getting broken up.”
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Niko O’Brien