![]() I was in another project that I was pretty committed to, so I didn’t actually expect this one to go for so long, or for people to be interested. It’s crazy because my cycle is kind of off of their cycle because they’re huge pop projects and I’m more of a small indie pop band.ĭELLA PERUTI: It formed around the release of the first EP, which was in 2011. Thankfully there hasn’t been any conflict. If there was a really serious conflict-it’s my rule-I’ll choose Gothic Tropic. ![]() I try not to take the gigs but it’s been so serendipitous how the timings worked out. WEISS: Is it difficult to focus on your personal music while you’re doing that?ĭELLA PERUTI: Yes, definitely. But it’s cool how naturally it came about, and I just kept saying yes. It’s something that happened after doing a project and from then on people just kept recommending me so I’m kind of catching up with some basic, dire requirements now and things like that. I find myself mainly playing keys for people. Usually the artists that have me play call me their “auxiliary.” So I’ll just do whatever they need-drum sampling, guitar, keys. I was his keyboard player, I played guitar too. I auditioned for stuff and do gigging as a way to keep income within the field of music. WEISS: How did you end up on tour with Børns? Were you in the band?ĭELLA PERUTI: I was in the band. Actually, I was on the road in Europe with Børns, sending ideas back and forth with the producer. There are some videos if you dig back years ago of us workshopping the song live. Some of the melody in the chorus was different. I added this whole bridge to it that didn’t exist before. In the bridge it opens up and I realize that, and the lyrics are, “If you let me be / You’ll count your lucky stars I’m free / I will be the renegade / The one who always makes your day.” It’s allowing my light to shine brightest when I’m free to be myself. It was me noticing morphing into whatever he wanted me to be. The chorus is more sincere, “I want to be good for you,” which is pretty romantic and actually how I felt. All of the verses are apologetic, saying sorry for some basics that maybe I shouldn’t be saying sorry for. There were unrealistic expectations that I didn’t realize were taking a toll on me. ![]() Basically, in the relationship that I was in, I realized I was burdened by subtle demands, by things like prerequisites that make me attractive to this person. I wrote it a long time ago and just recently reproduced it and rearranged it, so I kept some of the things that might’ve moved me to write it in the first place. HALEY WEISS: Did “How Life Works” emerge from like a particular experience?ĬECILIA DELLA PERUTI: Kind of-it’s a relationship tune. Tomorrow evening, you can find the group at the Satellite in Los Angeles, playing “How Life Works” in celebration of the single’s release. Now, after years of touring with the likes of Børns, Charlie XCX, and Night Terrors of 1927, Della Peruti-along with her bassist Brad Bowers and drummer Rhys Hastings (who tracked and co-wrote on the album, respectively)-will perform own band’s music. She’s been gigging as a professional musician for six years, ever since forming Gothic Tropic and releasing Awesome Problems, their first EP, in 2011. since she was 12 (save some back-and-forth due to a custody battle, which she with a laugh calls “flattering”). It’s at once powerful and celebratory, exposed and acquiescent, sonically effervescent and synthetic, and all the while earth-bound.Ģ7-year-old Della Peruti was born in New Jersey, but has lived in L.A. It’s a song about losing oneself in someone else, and a step into the chasm the band is able to bridge with their songs. While the album won’t arrive until October 28, here, we’re pleased to premiere “How Life Works,” its second track. The result is a compelling collection of contrasts, both musically and lyrically, which, for the first time, will be put on full display via the band’s forthcoming debut LP, Fast or Feast (Old Flame Records). With roomy, entrancing vocals and guitar guiding the way, they take inspiration from classic rock (frontwoman Cecilia Della Peruti’s formative first album was Fragile by Yes), Bauhaus, and West African music. While Los-Angeles based trio Gothic Tropic technically fall under the indie pop umbrella, their true genre is encapsulated in their name. CECILIA DELLA PERUTI IN LOS ANGELES, JULY 2016.
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