What do screaming peaches sound like? You can take that either way. The band, I’ll come to shortly. I’m talking about the fruit.
Can fruit scream? Take a gander at a peach. It doesn’t look like a screamer. It looks chilled. It’s a fruit for hot weather, Mediterranean sun, cocktail in hand, a Sex on the Beach maybe? Looking at the cover art for their new E.P “Sad Kid” you can see why it might be screaming. All that’s left is the stone. Someone had devoured the soft, juicy flesh.
That pretty much sums up Screaming Peaches. By the look of them, they are the louche, laid back people in their press photo. They used to go by the name ‘MOVIE’ (capitalised, a scream itself) and they have the appearance of having just walked off a film set. Possibly “Boogie Nights”! They certainly go in for the 70’s disco, but also manage to crowbar in a myriad of influences, from Bowie to the recent incarnation of The Kooks.
Newly streamed, ‘Regina’ from the E.P, begins like an MGMT song, with cooing harmonies of the title, but suddenly changes tack, like a schooner on the glistening sea, and heads straight into 80’s classic ‘Pop Musik’ by M.
This comes hot on the heels of the title track for the E.P which starts with much more funk and also manages to invoke the pop of Two Door Cinema Club whilst being infinitely more interesting, apart from that first single they did.
They wear their 80’s influences on their sleeves, Human League synths and harmonies and Talking Heads angular melodies and lead vocals, which by virtue of the passage of time, takes in Franz Ferdinand and Neil Hannon of Divine Comedy fame, the aforementioned MGMT, until we’re right up to date.
Get yourself down to the E.P launch in the dark basement at The Sebright Arms on 16th September and pretend you’re in a disco as the 70’s became the 80’s, revel in their glorious pop music and gobble them up.
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