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pecq are producer and multi-instrumentalist duo Hannah (Jakes) Jacobs (synth player for Barry Can’t Swim and Arlo Parks) and Niko O'Brien (engineer for the likes of Liz Fraser and Porij). The innovative pair create 'pop at its most exploratory' [Clash] and have been featured by the likes of BBC Radio 1, 2 and 6, Amazing Radio Top 40, Bandcamp Front Page, NOTION and the 6 Music Introducing Best of 2022. Their new EP ‘red moon rare night’ is a record about navigating isolation at different stages of life, looking at avoidant behaviour through the lens of queer identity, medical trauma, emigration, relationships, situationships and distance. Referencing the experimental, spiralling work of Boards Of Canada and Ultraísta along with the meditative songwriting of Sampha and Caribou as influences on their music, pecq bring together a broad set of influences, moving through choppy dance beats, twisting alt-pop melodies and blissful ambient daydreams. ‘Normally we write pretty closely together, but for this record both of us were touring a lot with other projects so it was a super remote process - done in hotel rooms in the middle of the night or in the back of a van driving through the dark. We were passing sessions and voice notes around for most of the year and it’s been cool to clearly hear each person’s stamp on the session but honestly nothing got finished until we were both back in the same studio! You can hear those after hours vibes in the music - a lot of it is set at night and the production’s got a darkness and isolation to it. The focus track ‘in the dark’ is about a situationship, falling for someone who’s avoidant and getting burnt. ‘I’ve been on both sides of the situationship vibe and they’re isolating in their own way - one cos you’re chasing an unattainable version of someone and the other cos you can’t let someone in. So it’s not a ragey situationship revenge song, it’s about that empty feeling at the end of the night when you wanted to feel closer to someone but just feel more alone’’ Jakes - pecq