Alice Peacock: Who I Am

"We cut all the songs live. All my vocal performances are live," she says, explaining how she sat at the piano singing and playing along with the band as the tape rolled. "We didn't rehearse. Andrew just said, 'I like to save it for the record.'" This certainly kept the studio bill manageable - Who I Am was recorded in about two weeks, at Hollywood's Sound Factory - but more importantly, it captured an immediacy, created an intimacy, that would have been impossible if Alice had been "hands-free in front of the mic," as she puts it. "I had to keep it simple and accept that it wasn't going to be perfect. There's an authenticity to the performances that people have really responded to."
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