Following last year’s Kill Rock Stars release, Let’s Look Back, Californian queer, non-binary musician and poet, Caleb Nichols returns with the new single, Little Red Peugeot.
Featuring Ellis Jones from Trust Fund, Little Red Peugeot will be released digitally this Friday May 24 via Glasgow-based label Heavenly Creatures Records. Ahead of its release, exclusive to Sun 13, you can listen for the first time below.
The single will be available exclusively on Bandcamp for the first two weeks of release, with Nichols donating all proceeds to Care For Gaza: a mutual aid fund that helps families in Palestine.
Little Red Peugeot was recorded in Oakland, California at Brothers (Chinese) Recording. The track was engineered and mixed by Jay Pellicci. Aaron Kroeger played the drums, while John Metz (Nichols’ partner) played the bass. Ellis Jones sings the choruses and the second verse.
Ahead of Little Red Peugeot’s release, Nichols comments:
“In April 2023 I did a bunch of solo shows all over the UK, mostly supporting Trust Fund, which was Ellis and Celia doing songs as a duo. My friend James drove me round in his Little Red Peugeot and sold merch. It was one of those trips that’s like once in a lifetime? Top 10 for me, for sure. So, it seemed natural to memorialise it in song. Of course, as with anything I do, it’s a sort of fiction. Everything is, I think.
“Nevertheless, it was a beautiful time and made for a beautiful story. I remember crying on stage in Sunderland, at Pop Recs… which isn’t something I do often. But I read a poem about my Dad and it ruined me, thinking of how incredible it was to be overseas, doing my thing, despite the violence I survived. I remember driving all night to get to some place, in a downpour, and there, along the motorway, in the darkness, a random white horse, illuminated for a moment by a streetlight. I remember laying in the grass in Sefton Park, in Liverpool, amongst the Daffodils, soaking in the first real spring day I’d had in the north, and chip butties in Birmingham and feeling sick. Mostly I remember driving, and joking, and singing, and having the best time with new friends, far away from home.
“So much has changed since then, about a year on, and of course the worst of it is the genocide in Gaza. My last album came out a week or so after the violence began, in October 2023. I didn’t know what to do then and still don’t, as an artist trying to do anything under such circumstances. For this single, which is available exclusively on Bandcamp for the first two weeks of release (via our new friends in Glasgow, Heavenly Creature Records), I’m donating all proceeds, every dime that comes in, to Care For Gaza: a mutual aid fund that helps families in Palestine. It’s really not much, but I hope we can pool our money and help a bit.
“Life is short and long and complicated and simple. Find some beauty. Be a friend.”
Nichols will tour the U.K. in June with shows and reads. Details below:
Tour poster by Calvin HallidayLittle Red Peugeot is out Friday via Heavenly Creatures Records. Purchase from Bandcamp.
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