How long does it take to release a super cute power pop EP? In at least this case, over a decade!
April Brott graduated in the late 2000s from Mills College with a degree in flute performance, came up with the band name “Funeral Cake” in 2010, took a break from music after the birth of her son, met her partner Fred Brott in 2018, wrote some songs in 2019, and recorded them in 2022. Here we are.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Ryan Perras at District Recording Studios in San Jose and released by Oakland’s Dandy Boy Records, One Place Left by Funeral Cake is sweet, twee, and catchy as heck. It’s also very much inspired by the East Bay, with Brott singing about how all the flavors sound good on “Loards,” named after the ice cream chain founded in Oakland. The title track is an homage to Children’s Fairyland, a way dreamier place to live than all those overpriced apartments you find from LA to Portland. (Coincidentally, Oakland artist Spellling is hosting a grown-up music festival at Fairyland this Saturday, September 16.)
For more new indie pop rock from Dandy Boy Records, check out EP 2 by Oakland quartet Smile Too Much.
