Swedish indie pop trio Peach Baby release debut EP via Lazy Octopus Records

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Peach Baby – Sensations EPDebut EP out now via Lazy Octopus Records

Listen to Sensations EP via Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp etc

“a mighty fine display of personality, artistry and sheer self-confidence” – Beats Per Minute

Hailing from Malmo, at the southern tip of Sweden, Peach Baby first met more than 700km away – while completing a one-year course in songwriting at a folk high school in the city of Bollnäs. All singers and all with ideas of their own, Moa McAllister, Elenoor Rovers and Judith Stocks came together with a shared vision: to tap into classic indie rock blueprints and remould them in their own image, reimagining melodic, guitar-based songwriting and imbuing it with a punk aesthetic.

“We were thinking about the concept of rock and who it belongs to,” says Stocks. “The idea was to try to make it our own. How do three different singers start a rock band? It began as there people playing together and became three leaders playing together.” With no clear frontperson, all three members sing on different tracks, which are written together.

“In the beginning it was more about trying on new clothes every time, figuring out what kind of sound we were comfortable we were with,” relates Rovers, who singles out HAIM’s intra-band democracy as a key influence. “Now, it’s about trying to rotate the responsibility between all three of us.” Originally starting out as SaidArtch in 2016 and releasing an pair of EPs, Until the End of Time and I Don’t Wanna Talk About Stuff, under the name, their decision to rebrand as Peach Baby in November of 2018 was both a practical one – SaidArtch was an in-joke between three that nobody else seemed to get – and the marking of a creative rebirth, a moment at which the three decided to pursue their musical ideas more ambitiously than they had before.

“In the beginning of the project, it was really important that there were no rules in this band,” explains McAllister. “And it still is – we want to stretch the boundaries in this band, and try to blend together different genres. But when we changed the name, we started to focus more on the specific sound we’d developed.” After the pandemic forced them to cancel a planned summer of shows in 2020, they headed instead to the studio, where they recorded a debut five-track EP, Sensations, set to arrive in 2021 via Lazy Octopus – a rich pop-rock tapestry that marks out Peach Baby as one of Sweden’s most exciting new musical exports.

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