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"Peaches" is a song by American rock band In the Valley Below. The track was included on the Peaches and Man Girl EPs, and then later their debut studio album The Belt. As a single off of the latter, it peaked at number 18 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in 2016. Background The song has been released on a number of the band's releases. It was first released on the Peaches EP in 2013, was later as a single off of the band's Man Girl EP in May 2014, and was finally released on the band's debut full-length studio album, The Belt in August 2014. The song gained in popularity after Kele Okereke of the band Bloc Party made a dance remix of the song, which was also included on the Man Girl EP. The song's popularity peaked in 2016, where it reached number 18 on the US Billboard Alternative Songs chart. Themes and composition Billboard described the song as "a mix of synth-driven pop and darker folk. Spin similarly referred to it as "synth folk". PopMatters compared the song's guitar and keyboard tone to the Depeche Mode song "Strangelove". Lyrically, the song was inspired by the work of Phil Collins, in the way that it tells a dark story, but still have a catchy melody meant to inspire sing-alongs. The song features duet vocals by both core band members Angela Gail Mattson and Jeffrey Jacob Mendel, alternating lines like "You’ve been drinking all week, baby, that’s all right" and "You’ve been tearing me apart in the dead of night" before jointly singing in unison "We won’t live too long/ So let’s love for one song". Live performances The band performed the song on live national television on The Late Show With David Letterman in August 2013, and on Conan in February 2015. The song has been a staple of the band's lives shows, being played frequently, including the Fiat sponsored concert series in at "Baby's All Right" venue in Brooklyn, New York, and at SXSW in 2017.

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“Here mulberries bleed; the grape’s lithe cluster bends; And blue the rush-bound cucumber depends.”
— Appendix Vergiliana (Copa); translated by C. A. Elton, Specimens of the Classical Poets, vol. 2 (1814), pp. 132-4
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”
— Genesis 3:6 (KJV)
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy..."”
— Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market (1862)
“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.”
— Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, vol. 1 (New York: Harper & Bros, 1855), p. 234
“Sharp-tasted citrons Median climes produce, (Bitter the rind, but generous is the juice,) A cordial fruit, a present antidote Against the direful stepdame's deadly draught.”
— Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2. John Dryden's translation (1697)
“Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.”
— Philip Larkin, "Breadfruit", Collected Poems (1988), p. 141

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Notable quotes

“Here mulberries bleed; the grape’s lithe cluster bends; And blue the rush-bound cucumber depends.”
— Appendix Vergiliana (Copa); translated by C. A. Elton, Specimens of the Classical Poets, vol. 2 (1814), pp. 132-4
“And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.”
— Genesis 3:6 (KJV)
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy..."”
— Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market (1862)
“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.”
— Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir, vol. 1 (New York: Harper & Bros, 1855), p. 234
“Sharp-tasted citrons Median climes produce, (Bitter the rind, but generous is the juice,) A cordial fruit, a present antidote Against the direful stepdame's deadly draught.”
— Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2. John Dryden's translation (1697)
“Boys dream of native girls who bring breadfruit, Whatever they are.”
— Philip Larkin, "Breadfruit", Collected Poems (1988), p. 141

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Peaches across IJR