Peachcake
Changing Moods From Sour Milk To Sun Kisses
Sep 13, 2009
Words by Sean Moeller
Illustration by Johnnie Cluney
Sound engineering by Mike Gentry
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Keep The World Safe, Tony S…
original version appears on What Year Will You Have The World?
Hello Earth,
On the date of February 3rd, 2009 (or somewhere prior to that date), we received word that the good pioneers over at Daytrotter (the window into the live soul of so many bands we all enjoy) wanted us to come do a live transmission of recorded material from our recent album, "What Year will you have the World?..". After much begging and pleading to coax them into permitting us to do a live satellite feed from The Planet Awesome so that we could further conserve and preserve valuable energy resources and the Earth's homeostasis (or perhaps, lack-thereof), they felt that it would degrade and compromise the essence of what they were always so keen on capturing and presenting with their formula for documenting live bands and their music. Nonetheless, as tired, tattered, weary, and weathered as we were, we made the trek out toward what we presumed was the smallest, but probably loudest island in the Midwest, of "Rock" Island, IL, and recorded as many tracks as we could possibly fathom and conjure in the span of whatever time was allotted on the reel. (Needless to say it wasn't as loud as we expected, an the Quizno's we ate at post-performance was quite far-off from rocking us to any extent.) So, here they are, unadulterated, and non-fabricated, real, in reel-time. Whether perfect, imperfect, or perfectly imperfect, we like them and find that these are a unique and special representation of where we were at at a specific time, just like I feel any recorded material wields for us all to see/feel/hear in this grand Mecca we call "art and music."
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Hundreds & Hundreds of Thou…
original version appears on We Should've Never Released This
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Stop Acting Like You Know M…
original version appears on What Year Will You Have The World?
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Souls Have No Drum Machine
original version appears on What Year Will You Have The World?
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The Song of the Century!
original version appears on What Year Will You Have The World?
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Nervous Breakdance! (The Co…
original version appears on What Year Will You Have The World?
What you want to say, just blurt out is, "No fucking way," when you hear that the electro-pop band Peachcake is from Carefree, Arizona, but thems are just the facts. It's so fascinating because to see the group live, to hear them in song or in conversation, it's the place that Stefan Pruett and John O'Keefe would seek out even if such a place were no more real than a unicorn or a jackalope/stagbunny/Wyoming thistle hare. The two odd ducks already consider their home planet to be Planet Awesome, which, from our calculations, is made up exclusively of sugary foods, strobe lights, thumping drums in loud music, beds made out of marshmallows and hot fudge, ubiquitously free wireless Internet, jingle bells attached to every shoe and sprinklers that you can run through at any time of the day. Peachcake music is insistent with its intentions. It is forcibly joyous and spastic. It demands to be hearted. It demands to be grinned at and moved to. It is supposed to change your mood from sour milk to sun kisses within minutes of the first song. They hunt down your inhibitions and they take them out with very good sniper rifles. Pruett and O'Keefe acknowledge the cold adversity of life in a spoken introduction to their song "Nervous Breakdance," but they seem to be unwilling to acknowledge it too extensively or to give it all that much mind. It's just something to walk around, to avoid swiftly, instead listening for the circus-y song of the ice cream truck coming down the block for another frozen treat because it's a guaranteed good time. They bank on those kinds of guarantees in like not the morbid ones like death and taxes. To hell with those, you can almost hear them singing between the lines, wearing clown noses or shifting their voices comically. They don't seem to tire or go dark, just flow and sweet talk their way in the pleasure centers of other peoples' souls. They ask the important questions in their between song banter, posing, "How hard is it to choose to be in a good mood, my friends?" and while this is a serious entreaty, they ask with the sounds of baaaaa-ing sheep popping off in the background. The sheep calls make the intentions feel legitimate and you feel yourself thinking of negativity as a plague as well, joining the side of the Peachcake.
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