Track By Track: Alice Jemima on self-titled debut album

Electric

This song is about positivity and the realisation that you can do amazing things, if only you can see yourself the way others do. I wrote this song with Ben Mark and Jamie Norton.

Dodged A Bullet

It’s a simple, universal narrative about a relationship that didn’t work out, and the realisation that getting out was a good thing. I wrote this track with Shelly Poole and Simon Byrt, and it’s produced by Roy Kerr.

No More

This is about arguing with the person you love… over small things. Realising it’s silly, then feeling that desire to make up and move on from whatever it was. This was recorded in London and produced by Roy Kerr and I.

Liquorice

This is a song about trying to please other people, and then drifting off into an imaginary world to try and please yourself. I wrote this at a time when I was putting a lot of pressure on myself. I think women especially feel like they should look a certain way or try to be something else, and I was definitely feeling it that day. I remember writing this track in a short space of time, on an acoustic guitar and then recording it. I worked on the production a little more with Simon Byrt, but this one has always stayed pretty stripped back, with light bongo drums and synthy bass.

Falling Out Of Love

This is a track I wrote towards the end of a relationship, it's and about trying to hold on when it's all turned sour. I produced this track with Roy Kerr and we recorded it in London.

When You Dance

I wrote this song about dancing with someone I was very into! A moment, that you have with that person on a dance floor, surrounded by lots of people, but the feeling that it’s just you and that person. I loved working on this track with Roy Kerr, and particularly loved putting down the guitar for this one as it was a song I’d recorded in a few different ways over the years, but felt that the guitar gave it something new.

So

This is the track that helped shape the sound of the album. I wrote this track differently to the other tracks, as I initially created a beat track for this one, and then worked the vocals and guitar around it. It’s a song about lust.

Toxic

A toxic relationship - knowing that whatever you say or do, things will blow up and become way more of an issue or stress than it ever should be. I worked on this track with Roy Kerr.

No Diggity

I chose to cover "No Diggity" after hearing Chet Faker's stripped-back version of it, but I wasn’t really planning to do anything with it, I was just playing around in my studio. But then I played it to my family and friends and they loved it, so I put it up on my SoundCloud. I definitely didn’t expect it to get the amount of plays that it did in such a short amount of time, I’m still completely bowled over by that, and I’ll be forever grateful to all those people that listened to it! So this is why this cover has ended up on my album.

Live For Now

I feel sometimes, some people are a little too stuck in the past. So this song is sort of saying, 'yes it’s good to reminisce about the past now and again - but don’t be so caught up in it all that you forget to live in the moment now.'

Cocoa Liquor

I made up a murder mystery kind of scene in my head for this one, it’s supposed to be pretty dark... with a positive sounding track to go with! I wrote and produced this song myself, at home in Devon.

Take Me Back

This is a song about friendship. That one friend who totally gets your crazy, wacky side - brings out the best, and thinking how lost you’d be without them!