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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Jack Tregoning

Peach PRC on stardom, synaesthesia and sexuality: ‘There was so much joy and fun in stripping’

Australian singer Peach PRC, for her debut album Porcelain
‘What instrument would a rose play? What would a wet rock sound like?’ … Australian singer Peach PRC. Photograph: Cybele Malinowski/Island Australia

Having lived much of her adult life online, Shaylee Curnow – better known as Peach PRC (or just Peach) – is now in her back-to-nature era. Seeking inspiration while living out of Airbnbs around Sydney, the musician took to wandering local neighbourhoods, curious about “what sort of trees the council was planting.” Eventually settling into a place of her own, complete with a modest courtyard and garden now familiar to her 2.2 million TikTok followers, she began volunteering at a local bush reserve alongside “all the little retired locals”.

“I felt really drawn to nature and the beauty I could find there,” Peach says. “And then that’s inspired a whole world of music.”

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