Songfacts®:

• The lead single from Alison Sudol's Still Come The Night, the first album released under her own name, finds the singer longing for a baby after suffering a devastating miscarriage. She did, indeed, become pregnant again with a baby girl after the song was written.
  
  "I think of her every time I sing that song and it gets me very emotional," she told Songfacts in 2022. "In a different way because so much of the emotion on this album is about the child we lost, but now that we have a child in our lives, that which we could have had is all the more poignant. Because we know how magical she is, and it reflects upon so much gratitude and so much wonder. It's an absolute miracle when a child is born because so many things have to work out. It's astonishing."
• Sudol wrote this with her producer Chris Hyson, a London-based composer who co-founded the band Snowpoet with vocalist Lauren Kinsella. While the song idea came easily, Sudol struggled to find the right words until she got some inspiration from her dreams.
  
  "We came up with the foundation of 'Peaches' in the studio in Wales, sitting in the sun during an insane heat wave, looking out over sheep fields," she noted in a press release. "The framework of the song came almost immediately but the words were slow. Several months later, with a nearly finished record, 'Peaches' still had no lyrics. My partner and I were talking about trying again for a child after our loss. I kept dreaming of this little baby girl. The dreams were so vivid, so real it was like she was right there, but I had no idea if I could bring a child into the world. The dreams made me long for her so much it was dizzying, but painful too, knowing it might never happen. The lyrics finally came. Three weeks later our daughter was conceived."
• The single's release coincided with the UK premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore, which featured Sudol reprising her role as Queenie Goldstein.