Catchy and cathartic indie pop involves life on Little Fuss’ irresistible EP ‘Pretty Distraction,’ a candy n’ bitter set of 4 contemporary introvert anthems that urge us to interrupt out of our shells in one of the simplest ways doable.

Stream: “Pretty Distraction” – Little Fuss

Be my beautiful distraction – ship my mind to the moon, why don’t you simply steal my focus away?

True to its identify, Little Fuss’ Pretty Distraction is a welcome escape and indulgence multi functional.

Excessive in power and stuffed with ardour, the Boston band’s new EP is unrelenting, uncompromising, and completely exhilarating – a radiant four-track enterprise that calls for listeners’ undivided consideration the entire method by means of. It’s a decent, high-octane four-track set: The sort that will get your blood pumping and your toes transferring in seconds, and has you singing alongside to the refrain in just some minutes. Little Fuss invite us to bask of their daring melodies and compelling lyrics as they unleash 4 of their favourite stay songs for the primary time on report. Catchy and cathartic indie pop involves life on the irresistible Pretty Distraction, a set of 4 introvert anthems that urge us to interrupt out of our shells in one of the simplest ways doable.

I used to be making an attempt to tug myself
alongside the haze my typical methods
You had been dying to inform me I used to be improper in case
The letters all light to blue
What’s it matter to you

I’m Miss Residing with the Finest Intentions
I’m sick of overrated second-guessing
I’ve been mendacity on the telephone to you
Once I say “I really like you too”

– “What’s It Matter to You,” Little Fuss

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering Little Fuss’ Pretty Distraction, independently out August 4, 2023. Arriving simply six months after this previous January’s extremely lauded debut album Women at Events, this new EP additional highlights the simple abilities of Olive Martinez, Cody Von Lehmden, Delia Martin, and Vitor Oliveira.

This isn’t the primary time Little Fuss of have made a huge impact; the band’s debut EP Hazy, launched in 2021, proved an “effortlessly evocative and compelling introduction” to the then-duo of vocalist Martinez and multi-instrumentalist Von Lehmden. Atwood Journal had the pleasure of premiering that report as effectively, calling it “a sequence of 4 glistening and groovy emotional upheavals” and “a radiant indie pop outpouring that magnifies the intimate area of an introverted thoughts.”

The band’s development over the previous two years can’t be understated; past doubling in membership, Little Fuss’ sound has grown in depth and dynamic energy. The band sound tighter than ever, and their 4 latest songs spotlight their very own confidence and self-assuredness at finishing up these self-described “introvert anthems” from begin to end.

It helps that they’ve additionally been taking part in these tunes for a number of years now; it’s that a lot simpler to seize a music on report while you’ve already finessed it on stage.

“Earlier than releasing Women at Events, we needed to put numerous already written songs on maintain as a result of they didn’t match into the idea of the album,” Olive Martinez tells Atwood Journal. It’s value noting right here that Women at Events was an idea album, whose songs “advised the tales and explored the experiences of 9 apprehensive interconnected characters navigating varied social settings, and confronted themes of sexism, social nervousness, and different issues regarding psychological well being and sociology.”

Pretty Distraction‘s 4 tracks proceed to discover the nuances of interpersonal relationships, however they don’t observe the identical narrative because the band’s album and therefore make extra sense right here than on the earlier LP. “Since we love taking part in these songs stay, we needed to report them from scratch, and provides them a brand new life on Pretty Distraction,’ taking further affect from our more moderen inspirations,” Martinez explains.

The tip result’s as energizing as it’s immersive: From the modern seduction of “I Know Precisely” and the heated, smile-inducing reverie of “Hypothetical Woman” to the cool strut of “What’s It Matter to You” and the charming churn of “Pretty Distraction,” Little Fuss guarantee we come away with not one, however 4 new favourite songs.

The report’s singles – “Hypothetical Woman” and “What’s It Matter to You” – have been particularly effectively obtained since their respective releases. Each tracks spotlight the band’s capacity to inject intimate feelings and refined nuance right into a larger-than-life efficiency, with Martinez’s vocals serving because the glue to carry all the things collectively. Her spectacularly charged supply in “Hypothetical Woman” is very memorable:

I’m only a daydream
A figment of your creativeness
I’ll preserve you guessing
At the very least I feel that’s the expectation

I’ll be your hypothetical woman
In your manic pixie dream world
And all of the boys will ask you ways the sport is performed
Tonight I’ll take you on a play date
I’ll make it really feel like a Friday
One thing gold and gone earlier than your thoughts can change

– “Hypothetical Woman,” Little Fuss

“‘Hypothetical Woman’ is a sarcastic try and liberate the manic pixie dream woman, each as a literary trope and in actual life,” Martinez explains. “As a lady, you’re consistently being put in containers, and infrequently seen as a totally complicated human. One of the annoying containers is when males put you on a pedestal of affection with out attending to know you in any respect. When somebody romanticizes or sexualizes the concept of a lady, it makes it harder for her to be taken severely as something greater than that. Moreover, it may be very uncomfortable and even creepy for somebody who doesn’t know you to turn into infatuated with the model of you they made up of their head.”

“Hopefully folks perceive the irony within the refrain of “Hypothetical Woman,” and discover the true which means of the music within the bridge when it says, “I’m only a daydream, a figment of your creativeness.” Ladies will not be concepts or hypotheticals; they’re impartial and absolutely complicated folks.”

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Finally, Pretty Distraction reminds us why we fell for Little Fuss within the first place.

Their cinematic indie pop songs are stuffed with substance, making it that rather more enjoyable to sing alongside.

“As a band, this EP has a number of enjoyable benchmarks for us,” Martinez says. “‘Pretty Distraction’ is the primary music that Cody and I wrote collectively, and this EP is the primary launch that now we have come collectively as a four-piece to report. We hope that that is the form of report that listeners can placed on of their bed room and have an excellent time dancing round or simply vibing out to our retro tackle pop songs.”

Expertise the complete report by way of our beneath stream, and peek inside Little Fuss’ Pretty Distraction EP with Atwood Journal because the band take us track-by-track by means of the music and lyrics of their newest launch!

Pretty Distraction is out in every single place August 4.

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I Know Precisely

“I Know Precisely” is about breaking free from a poisonous cycle in a relationship. When Cody confirmed me his thought for the instrumentals of this music, I had simply had a horrible argument with somebody after spending years making an attempt to compromise with them so as to preserve them blissful. Arguing has all the time bothered me as a result of motive doesn’t matter a lot as who yells louder and will get the final phrase, which appears pointless to me. I feel these lyrics helped me discover a approach to specific my facet of the argument in a considerably logical method that made my emotions make extra sense to me. It’s a very trustworthy interpretation of the results of psychological abuse, and was useful in permitting me to place myself first. Possibly it could actually assist some listeners do the identical.

Hypothetical Woman

This music is a sarcastic try and liberate the manic pixie dream woman, each as a literary trope and in actual life. As a lady, you’re consistently being put in containers, and infrequently seen as a totally complicated human. One of the annoying containers is when males put you on a pedestal of affection with out attending to know you in any respect. When somebody romanticizes or sexualizes the concept of a lady, it makes it harder for her to be taken severely as something greater than that. Moreover, it may be very uncomfortable and even creepy for somebody who doesn’t know you to turn into infatuated with the model of you they made up of their head. Hopefully folks perceive the irony within the refrain of “Hypothetical Woman,” and discover the true which means of the music within the bridge when it says, “I’m only a daydream, a figment of your creativeness.” Ladies will not be concepts or hypotheticals, they’re impartial and absolutely complicated folks.

What’s It Matter to You

We needed to have enjoyable drawing from a few of our ’60s influences like The Zombies and The Doorways for this music. The lyrics are fairly summary and really imaginary, as I wrote them years in the past, earlier than ever being in an actual relationship of my very own. I simply needed the narrator to have this breakthrough second of independence, realizing that her relationship form of sucks, however that she didn’t actually care about it in any case. She is somebody who has all the time lived with the “greatest intentions,” by being an excellent girlfriend and doing what she figured was anticipated of her. Within the music, she merely loses endurance on this life-style and decides to be trustworthy about the truth that she was by no means even in love to start with. General, it’s only a enjoyable music that’s not meant to be taken too severely.

Pretty Distraction

“Pretty Distraction,” is kind of the antithesis to “I Know Precisely,” which makes it an ideal bookend for the final music on the EP. It’s in regards to the feeling of shedding all logic and motive after assembly somebody new and thrilling who you possibly can’t cease interested by. It’s a music in regards to the butterflies you get in your abdomen and the feverish lack of ability to focus on something aside from your new crush. We needed to finish the EP on a optimistic notice as a result of… love is superior! Why not? You recognize?

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