This November the 14th marks the release of Sydney singer songwriter Pluto Jonze’s Sucker EP a collection of sparkling indie pop gems ready to tide us over throughout the summer period.

Having released his debut album Eject last year, the indie-pop maestro has spent the greater part of 2014 writing new tunes, travelling abroad and touring nationally, having just got off the road with Ball Park Music.

Ahead of the release of Sucker Pluto was kind enough to give us a track by track run down on the making of this killer EP. Check it out below.

Funeral

“I was imagining what song I’d like played at my funeral. The more I thought about it the less I wanted anything somber or poignant. I was thinking monster mash would be the ultimate anti-gravitas song to play. Like a last laugh or something. Anything to lift the vibe, and then I started thinking fuck it why not just have a wicked party, after all a funeral’s a celebration in a way. So no black, wear purple please.”

Breakfast in Korea

“There was this preset on my old Kurzweil keyboard called ‘Breakfast In Seoul’, this cheesy bright organy thing. I remember I’d had a lot of diplomatic, ‘conflict resolution’ sort of language rolling around my brain from late night discussions trying to hold a long-distance relationship together.

You know how sometimes you just feel like you need to get away to neutral ground to sort things out, somewhere without people either of you know around. Even though it didn’t make it on the final version, I tried to keep a little bit of the light vibe of that original bright organ sound with the production on this.”

Sucker

“Guess it’s about a person or thing you just can’t say no to, no matter how bad they are for you. I cowrote it with Dean Mcgrath and I remember it came about really organically. It ended up sounding quite 90s in the chorus, though that wasn’t the express intention, it just sort of happened like that. I like the Juno synth sound we got for the intro.”

Too Much Money

“I remember I came up with the chorus idea in the car driving along Syd Einfeld drive and hearing on the radio that 70% of the world’s money goes back into the finance sector. I’m no economist and have probably misquoted what I heard, but I had this old guitar riff lying around, which happily found a home underneath the main refrain that was forming.

It’s clearly all pretty satirical, but I wanted it to just be a wild, banging track in its own right as well.I wanted frantic, claustrophobic production to reflect the pressure to spend that weighs the main character down. I feel like I borrowed from a lot of hip hop tropes for this one.”

Foolin with nature

“I went through a few different versions of this song before I settled on the arrangement you hear – the first working title was ‘Pavarotti’s burnin’! A loop of one of these old versions closes the EP, thought it’d be nice to chuck that on there as a little post script.

For the lyrics I took the perspective of a mad-scientist god like character who creates the world simply by messin around, by trial and error. The world he creates grows out of control and eventually turns on him – kind of like songs do sometimes when you’re writing them! One of my favourites to sing live.”

For more info on Pluto and the Sucker EP, visit his Facebook page.

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