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With her first EP Manic Dream Pixie finally out, TikTok sensation Peach PRC has solidified her place as a vibrant fixture of Australia’s pop music landscape.

In her new release, Peach (born Shaylee Curnow) balances narrative worldbuilding against increasingly bombastic pop synths. Each song on the new record relays a different perspective on love, loss and self-discovery, each to differing levels of success.

The lyrical specificity with which Peach details a lifetime of personal struggles positions her as Australia’s glittery, pink, queer answer to Billie Eilish. Yet the standout on this record is the singer’s vocals, with her ethereal voice floating effortlessly over the lush production.

Peach displays an acute awareness of the manic pixie dream girl tropes that have been placed upon her, reclaiming it as an image of her own design. This is best encapsulated in the album’s cover art which sees the singer laid out as a mystical fairy princess adorned in her signature pink.

Notably absent from the record are radio hits “Josh” and “God is a Freak”, both of which placed on Triple J’s Hottest 100 in 2021 and 2022 respectively. None of the tracks here contain the hyper-specific songwriting of their predecessors, but Peach is clearly having plenty of fun with it.

Clocking in at a run time of 17 minutes, Manic Dream Pixie is a flash-in-the-pan sampler for the sounds we can expect on an eventual full-length album.

Check out Queer Honi’s track-by-track review below.