You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
In this episode,
Claire and Jonna of the band Yacht will play us their brand new single, Plastic Soul.
They explain how technology inspired them musically as well as lyrically,
and the secret to getting the best sounds from your software.
By just clicking on everything?
Here's the exploded view of Plastic Soul by Yacht.
Hi, I'm Jonna.
And I'm Claire.
Together we make something called...
Yacht.
Tuh.
We always start with these points of reference that then when you hear the finished song,
there's no bearing on it whatsoever.
But Amanda Lear is this like sort of disco, deeply baritone voiced,
sexy lady who made these kind of spoken word disco songs.
That are so good.
The song that this is, the chorus is modeled after is called Never Trust a Pretty Face.