NYC power pop artist Charlie Kaplan releases new single "Gas Station Bathroom"
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NYC power pop artist Charlie Kaplan has unveiled their new single "Gas Station Bathroom" today.
The song, which can be heard below, revolves around Kaplan driving their late father’s Honda CR-V until it fell apart. Kaplan further explains:
My dad left me his busted old 97 CR-V when he died and I drove it until pieces started falling out of the bottom of the car onto the highway. The long, mostly solitary hours I spent tracing I-95 up and down the coast over those years were a sometimes maddening, sometimes revealing stage for examining where my life was going in the wake of that loss. Without knowing where to find terra firma, I was unmoored, untethered, and lost, always moving. I love the performances on this song, and particularly relish the way Andrew Daly Frank’s wistful, winding guitar licks lead into the song’s solo section.
"Gas Station Bathroom" comes from Kaplan’s forthcoming studio album Country Life In America, which will be released on September 15. Pre-orders for the album which also includes the single "Talkin' French,” can be made here.
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