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Apr 27, 2016 By Michael Wojtas Teen Body

Today, we’re premiering “Can’t Remember,” the lead single from Teen Body’s forthcoming debut LP, Get Home Safe. With its delicate, skipping-stone guitar leads, blur of androgynous vocals from guitarist Shannon Lee and bassist Alex French, and distant vox organ that drifts into the mix like frost forming on a windshield, the song is reminiscent of the kind of crestfallen, stately dream pop that blossomed in the U.K. just as post-punk’s halcyon days began to dissipate. While an awareness of the pre-C86 indie canon seems to inform “Can’t Remember” (and some parallels to the enigmatic, bruised romanticism of Minks’ By the Hedge certainly exist), there’s a fluidity to the interplay between Lee, French, and drummer Marcus McDonald that gives the impression that the song naturally sprung up from wells of private disillusion.

Via email, French shared some thoughts on the track:

““Can’t Remember” was the last song written for the album. It was that ‘no end in sight’ part of the winter and I was getting trapped in this horrible cycle of working late restaurant hours, staying out till last call, then sleeping in, rinse and repeat. You barely see the sun living like that, and can almost forget about being creatively productive. But one of those nights between the bar and my bed, I was just humming this sad guitar line like I had just left an 80’s prom all alone.

Lyrically, I was thinking a lot about the myth of Persephone—something about an endless winter and never seeing the sun really had me really relating to the queen of the underworld. The line “can’t remember” itself could be taken as, ‘oh man, I can’t remember what it was like to be warm’, but it’s also this greater longing for youth and naivety, something you can never really get back. She’s sort of in-between it all, being torn in all directions, wishing she could remember that once eternal spring of her youth.”

Head below to listen and check out the band’s upcoming live dates.

Live Dates:

Greenpoint Open Studios’ Launch Party at Java Gallery- 4/29, Brooklyn, NY
Aviv w Sean Henry, Navy Gangs and Holy Tunics- 5/14, Brooklyn, NY
Alphaville w Melt, Katrina Stonehart and Slur, 5/25, Brooklyn, NY

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