All Day Breakfast Cafe have released their new EP ‘Have You Seen This Queen’.
Speaking of their EP, the band said: “The whole EP is a tribute to female friendships and queer joy. ‘Have You Seen This Queen’ means celebrating the incredible women and queens in your life and bigging them up at every opportunity. As a band that is exactly what we’re all about, so we made sure that every single person who worked on this (and our last) EP is a women or gender non-conforming person, including recording engineers, producers, mastering, remixers, photographers, session musicians, and, of course, everyone in the band!”
To celebrate their EP release, All Day Breakfast Cafe share with us 5 tracks that influenced ‘Have You Seen This Queen’.
Chic – Good Times
Chic and especially Nile Rodgers (for Jelly) is always a touchstone. I wanted to create a solid grove built off a killer bass riff for this track, and ‘Good Times’ is a great track which does just that.
Kiki Gyan – Disco Dancer
I’m a big fan of Kiki Gyan’s psychedelic disco sound. Each element has a lot of space with echo and reverb but everything is still hitting and grooving really hard. That’s something we were really aiming for with this track to give it a vintage sound but also make sure it would deliver on the dance floor.
Weather Report – Birdland
I became a bit obsessed with the way Jaco Pastorius sings along with the horn line in ‘Birdland’, it always makes me feel so happy. I wanted to have that energy in our track in the horn break just before the guitar solo. We were all in the studio a bit delirious after recording the whole EP in two days, and we got to let loose and have a lot of fun just singing along to what we’d just recorded. That’s one of my favourite bits of the track now.
First Choice – Sitting Pretty
This is one of my all time favourite disco tracks! The Salsoul Orchestra were the backing band of First Choice and lots of other of the best disco records (Grace Jones, Loleatta Holoway) and they had this polished Philadelphia sound which combined latin, funk and disco. They were one of the best in the game, so I definitely tried to get some inspiration from them in the way I used strings, horns and percussion, and got some latin flavours into the disco beat.
Jessie Ware – That! Feels Good!
I love that disco is back in the pop charts! Our producer Jess Camilleri definitely drew some inspiration from this track for the way we layered the beginning vocals on ‘adrenaline rush’.
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