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, your way.

In this episode, Claire and Johnna of The Band Yacht will play as their brand new single, Plastic Soul.

They explain how technology inspired the 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.

The world is old.

Hi, I'm Johnna.

And I'm Claire.

Together we make something called Yacht.

We always start with these points of reference that then when you hear the finish song, there's no bearing on it whatsoever.

But Amanda Lear is this sort of disco, deeply baritone voice, sexy lady who made these kind of spoken word disco songs.

That are so good.

The song that this is the chorus's model after is called Never Trust A Pretty Face.

Never trust a pretty face.

It sounds like Nico a little bit.

Yeah.

Never trust a pretty face.

But on that song, there's a chorus, a harmony of maybe like three or four men.

And I loved the way it sounded as her with this baritone voice, but then also men backing her up.

We should have hired a choir, but we did it with software because I wanted it to sound a little bit fucked up.

You think you're losing it because you see the things your mother does.

So there's an octave and a fifth.

You see the man your father was.

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