Before the summer Pica Pica released the wonderful single “Lift Me Up“. Now they have launched the follow-up “Where Did The Summer Go”, a duet where Jonas Jonsson (aka Bedroom Eyes) joins Ida Segersten on vocals. This time they have added some more energy in a track that, after a mood-setting start, explodes in shimmering synth arpeggios and a beat that almost pushes us out onto the disco floor. Here’s both a dose of drama and a nice, melancholic ambience containing a title phrase that lingers in the air after the song has finished.
In the beginning of the year, after the release of the EP “The Darker”, the group Pica Pica announced the launch of the EP “The Lighter” later in Spring. Now the first two tracks from the EP are out, songs that contrast the earlier songs with their feeling of peace and warmth in a laidback, dreamy pop.
Pica Pica describe themselves as an art group which manifest themselves as a pop band. The group consists of musicians, producers, songwriters, film makers, photographers, graffiti artists, designers and others. They started out in 2013 as the songwriter and artist Ida Segersten and the producer Per Alexander Esbjörnsson (a.k.a. Slateside) made a recording of Ida’s song “Isolated” whereafter the clothing designer ClaesMikael Svensson soon joined them in the project.
Sinced then the group has grown with more and more members and has now arrived to the first official released in the shape of the EP “The Darker”, which is launched today. In May they will release the second EP “The Lighter” along with a short film, and everything will be accompanied by other expressions of art like graphic prints, new clothing designs, videos and photos.
They write that the theme of the three songs on “The Darker” is love madness, a melancholic tribute to a grand friendship, and the feeling of something beautiful that’s is torn apart. That description is well depicted in the music which feels beautifully melancholic, sometimes sad, and which they build up to grand crescendos in large rooms, sometimes reaching dramatic and bombastic heights. Here are two of the songs and the video to “Isolated”:
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