Pleasure Centre release new single ‘Favourite’

Pleasure Centre are an alt/art rock quintet from the North Yorkshire coast (Scarborough and Bridlington), forming from a group of childhood friends in late 2019. Now living together in Leeds, the group explores cross-genre soundscapes both on record and onstage, crafting a sound to captivate audiences. From shared and continuous memories of growing up, moving out and navigating the world together; the band crafts songs dedicated to those experiences and emotions. Taking influence from the alt-rock movement between the mid 80s and 90s (think MBV, Slowdive, The Jesus and Mary Chain) mixed with the catalogue of Radiohead and other modern contemporaries like Wolf Alice and BDRMM, the bands material spans across these inspirations, combined with the members’ own individualistic tastes, finding both delicate melodic moments and blissful walls of sound, branching out into ambient electronic corners and back.

Following the release of their debut EP in 2022, Pleasure Centre has reflected on and reformed their sound. From a year’s worth of writing sessions, the band worked with Leeds based producer Alex Greaves to record a new body of work at The Nave in the summer of 2023.

Favourite embodies the slow burn and explosive, cathartic release of pent-up emotion through its patient opening progression and sudden blossoming of colourful, twinkling interlocked wash of guitars. Reluctant optimism is peppered throughout the lyrics and instrumentation, urging and yearning for some kind of positive change. This second single

takes its time, the track brings together individual traits of all the band’s members in a collective effort and a new, more focused songwriting style. A heavier bearing on electronic elements solidifies this track in its own spacious world within the group’s catalogue. Delving into the synth world during the recording process, this genre mixing reshaped the song from

its early first forms whilst retaining its guitar-oriented core, of which the song still grasps wholeheartedly more direct than we’ve ever done before.”