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Stricken City - Songs About People I Know

Stricken City release their debut mini-album 'Songs About People I Know' next week.

Stricken City release their debut mini-album 'Songs About People I Know' next week (12th October) through Puregroove, and here frontwoman Rebekah Raa talks us through the songs that appear on it.

The record was produced by Jeremy Warmsley, Ian Davenport, Andy from Tin Can Telephone, and the band themselves, and was preceded by the release of single 'Five Metres Apart'.

1. 'Gifted'
This song was recorded as an acappella on a bus. It's about someone who brings out the worst qualities in people, and about having a bit of a moral dilemma. These kind of problems are often best resolved on the number 21.

2. 'Pull The House Down'
The music came together really quickly for this song but the words were really difficult to get out. It's an outstretched hand; an offer of help and understanding to someone who didn't realise their own potential and just kept messing things up.

3. 'Small Things'
About productivity and motivation; trying to get to the end of the tunnel; my own frustration at my inability to get up in the morning; and a girl who wraps herself up in her work so much she can't see anything going on around her. She works so hard she looks ill, but I think this is the happiest she's ever been. I'm probably just jealous.

4. 'Killing Time'
Spending some quality time inside your imagination is no crime, but is probably better spent with a best friend or the love of your life.

5. 'PS'
Sometimes things are better left unsaid, and sometimes things are better said really loud on your first E.P. A little "Oh and by the way...you're not as good as you think you are, and I don't like you either"…

6. 'Sometimes I Love You'
When I wrote the words to this I'd just watched "Pierrot le Fou". It's about running away with someone, companionship and silliness, and forgetting about everyone else in the world.

7. '5 Metres Apart'
This song has been through four bassists, three drummers and a few different keyboard parts, but it has always been about the same thing; when you overlook the funny little things you like about someone and start taking it more seriously.

8. 'Terrible Things'
A look back to childhood memories of getting banned from things like matches and scissors… for someone who couldn't grow out of being naughty.

You can download a Gold Panda remix of the band's previous single 'Lost Art' here.