Katie Gavin has announced her new LP What A Relief, will come out October 25th via Phoebe Bridgers‘ Saddest Factory Records. Along with the news, Gavin is also releasing “Aftertaste” a song which indulges in the headrush of new romance, effortless in the way all Gavin’s best pop songs are. “Aftertaste” leaps and stumbles forward toward desire, its recklessness part of the fun. “That song takes place inside of the magnetic force, when I’m really drawn to somebody and still feeling like it’s gonna work,” she says. “Sometimes it’s fun to surrender to that feeling – I think a lot of songwriters have a strong relationship with romantic fantasy.”

“I thought this song would be a good place to start because to me it kind of serves as a bridge, sonically and thematically, between MUNA’s world and the world we are going to with the solo record.

“Aftertaste” is a sweet song about carrying a torch for someone, realizing that you are going out to concerts and parties hoping to run into them there. The song is a playing out of a fantasy, really, both because it involves confessing your crush and finding out that it is reciprocated.

Naomi McPherson helped me come up with the idea for the video, in which I’m the subject of a nude drawing class, and Alexa Viscius co-directed with me and brought in an amazing team of Chicago creatives to bring it to fruition. Filming in the city I’m from felt very right for introducing this solo work. Back to my roots, if you will.”

Katie Gavin
What A Relief
Tracklisting

1. I Want It All
2. Aftertaste
3. The Baton
4. Casual Drug Use
5. As Good As It Gets ft. Mitski
6. Sanitized
7. Sketches
8. Inconsolable
9. Sparrow
10. Sweet Abby Girl
11. Keep Walking
12. Today

Katie Gavin 2024 Tour Dates

July 27 – Newport Folk Festival – Newport, RI*^
Sep 7 – Evanston Folk Festival – Evanston, IL*
Sep 11 – The Old Church – London, UK^
Nov 19 – Neumos – Seattle WA^
Nov 20 – The Old Church – Portland OR^
Nov 22 – Bimbo’s 365 Club – SF, CA^
Nov 24 – Pappy + Harriet’s – Pioneertown, CA^
Nov 25 – Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever – Los Angeles, CA^
Dec 8 – The Blue Room – Nashville, TN^
Dec 10 – Bowery Ballroom – NY, NY^
Dec 13 – The Atlantis – Washington DC^
Dec 14 – Brighton Music Hall – Boston, MA^
Dec 16 – The Great Hall – Toronto, ON^
Dec 18 – Thalia Hall – Chicago, IL^

* w/ MUNA
^ headline

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