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CARWASH
soundtracks adolescence
and pandemonium
with debut EP
‘SOAP WATER’
out now
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Praise for CARWASH
“carwash comes to full fruition” – SNIFFERS
“The lo-fi nuances and overall introspect forge a snapshot of youth” – The Line of Best Fit
“With lyrics broad enough to appeal to the masses, yet specific enough to identify with,
his music evokes nostalgia with ease” – Los Angeles Times
“A swell of emotional turmoil that is difficult not to immediately get swept up in” – Ones to Watch
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20-year-old multi-instrumentalist and multi-disciplinary artist Garrett Seamans today shares soap water, the debut EP from his latest emo-tinged DIY pop project, carwash. LISTEN HERE.
Bringing together previous singles ‘boyfriend, girlfriend‘ and ‘racetrack‘, soap water chronicles the transformation of close friendship into young love, evocatively capturing the fluctuating emotions of hesitant, demure uncertainty, and passionate surety that contour this chrysalis. On opener ‘friendship’ and lead single ‘racetrack‘, his ardour expresses itself through emotive bursts of crunched-out, reverb-laden electric guitars, and flurries of wistful, nostalgic melodies, channeling the pangs and pulls of adolescent desire, combining coastal haziness with the yearning of second-wave emo and the arena-sized relatability of contemporary bedroom pop in sweeping, lovelorn pushes. At the center lies second single ‘racetrack‘, Seamans’ half-murmured, multitrack vocals, lingering, atmospheric instrumentation and strummed, raw-mic’d acoustic guitar painting unhurried, unspoken intimacy in lo-fi tones reminiscent of Alex G and Florist. And elsewhere, as on ‘a big tree in a giant green field’ and closer ‘at least i lived it with you’, carwash fashions delicate, fleeting vignettes of emotion where ghostly samples – snippets of field recordings and voice memos – float in and out of the mix and languid, plucked guitars impart the vulnerability of stripping yourself completely bare.
soap water was born during the seemingly endless, listless hours of lockdown-induced monotony: a cycle of wake, record, aimlessly plod around the neighbourhood, record some more, and repeat that produced a cache of demos originally intended for Seamans’ ears only, for his own amusement and sanity as he whiled away the hours. The five tracks collected on soap water give a soundtrack to these two peculiar periods of life – the pandemic and adolescence; each of them ache acutely with the missing presence of human connection and yearn nostalgically for simpler times, looking to both the past and the future, as Seamans imparts stories of navigating life via friendship and his lyricism bristles with the uncertainty of an ambiguous future.
SOAP WATER EP is out now,
buy/stream it here.
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SOAP WATER
the movie
Accompanied by a short film co-directed by Seamans and an old friend, soap water: the movie brings the narrative push and cinematic soundscapes of carwash’s debut EP to poignant visual life, due to be released shortly following the EP and premiered at an independent San Diego cinema, one of Seamans’ favourite haunts growing up. Written as a hangout movie, the short film zeroes in on one day in the life of a teenager who yearns desperately for his first kiss, capturing the fragile, fleeting moments of adolescence, where carefree abandon collides with the impending obligations of dawning adulthood, soundtracked by the music of carwash.
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SOAP WATER
tracklisting
Friendship
A Big Tree in a Giant Green Field
Racetrack
Boyfriend, Girlfriend
At Least I Lived it With You
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About CARWASH
Across an audio-visual universe of multiple sounds and personas, the creativity of San Diego-based artist Garrett Seamans runs freely, hardly reined in by notions of genre or medium. Unfettered, escapist experimentation is the rule; vulnerability is the constant. From the alt-pop blankets of Postcard Boy to the comparatively guitar-forward carwash and the whimsical videos he releases under his YouTube channel, phylm, this ethos is what tethers all of Garrett’s myriad projects together. Away from the pursuits of his other projects, the music Seamans creates as carwash is influenced in part but not limited to: emo and indie rock of the ‘90s and the early aughts, sunrises spent on the San Diego coast, his cinematographic work, high school romance, the need for a language more accessible than words themselves.
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