The air is getting cooler, the B line is jam-packed with students again, and it’s getting harder to avoid those pangs of nostalgia that come with the end of another summer. But as the rest of us have been figuring out how to spend these last few days of warm weather, Providence trio Edgar Clinks has been in the studio working on a track that’s perfect for those of us who aren’t ready to give any of it up just yet. The full tape, i live in a tree these days, is being released via Super Wimpy Punch this Saturday.
“Sea-Shell Choker” combines simple, upbeat vocals and chilled-out guitar to ramble along like a buzzed conversation with a good friend. And that’s what it’s about, at least in part: opening with the lines “Fucked up/ the good kind/ a clambake/ a campfire”, it feels like an ode to a certain kind of New England summer night. Vocalist and songwriter Joe Gaudiana explained that he first pictured the song as a stoned exchange with someone wearing (appropriately) a seashell choker. “I imagined him hanging out with someone equally high and saying, ‘Hey, you have a garden in your kitchen? Sick, i have a tidepool around my throat!’ The title of the album refers to a similar sort of displacement, I suppose.” Whether you’re spending this September on new turf of your own or you’re still riding on summer vibes, “Sea-Shell Choker” will resonate.
Hear it for yourself below, then catch Edgar Clinks along with Poppies, Black Beach, and Derek Knox at the i live in a tree these days tape release show at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island on Saturday, September 17th.