Ead Wood gives us a slice of summer with rosy guitar-pop track “Plum Cake”

This song is to be gorged upon, just like its namesake. Nothing is such an aural delight as a jangling guitar; Ead Wood & The Heights know this, and execute it with perfection. Calling to mind sunny days with Ead’s eternally optimistic vocals, “Plum Cake” is the kind of song you play on a sleepy summer afternoon.

Elaborating on the track, Ead explains, ‘“Plum Cake” was written last summer on a sunny day, spent swimming and reflecting at Clevedon Marine Lake, on the south west coast not far from Bristol. After a morning of tormenting mundane choices, (tea or coffee, ice cream or chips, cycle or bus) and a complete lack of decision on irrelevant matters the idea for the song came to me in a flash. I wrote all the lyrics mid-breast stroke on the long lengths across the lake. As soon as I got home the chords came and the song was done. The only problem, deciding on a title. The song was unnamed for months until I was played the song in Munich on a solo tour last August. I asked the audience if anyone had any ideas for a title and to shout them out at the end. As the song finished, I asked again, no one replied as half the crowd was eating cake, I asked what the cake was and they shouted Special Bavarian Plum Cake, and there’s the title.’

Despite its sanguine sound, “Plum Cake” is about the anxiety that comes with everyday decision: “Take a chance / To see what you’re pushing against”, is his call to action. While “Plum Cake” lulls us into a summer daze, its lightness gives you the confidence that any decision – big or small – is a piece of cake.