Cavetown - 'Grocery Store'
Cavetown releases the emotive ‘Grocery Store’.
Boasting an impressive one billion global streams to date and nearly eight million monthly Spotify listeners, the Cambridge-based bedroom-pop showstopper Cavetown (aka Robin Skinner) is back with their latest single in tow. ‘Grocery Store’ is veined with sweet vocals and lush lo-fi intonations that highlights Cavetown’s ability to pen delicate numbers that don’t shy away from tearing at the heartstrings.
Talking on the new track, Skinner divulges: “’Grocery Store’ took a few different forms before landing where it is now. The lyrics started to come together when I was struggling with my mental health and had to go to the shop to pick up a few things. It's always so difficult being in a public space when you're feeling really awful. At first, I wasn't super inspired by what I was writing until I worked with Kina Beats. That version of the song helped me feel inspired again, so I picked the idea back up and created ‘Grocery Store’.”
Skinner lay their inner thoughts bare in this delicately intimate cut that paints the narrative of hiding in plain sight. Explored through poetic lyricism (“Can you hear all of my open wounds? / I'm whispering as loud as the flowers bloom”), their struggles with mental health are left un-sugar-coated: “I've been trying not to cry in the grocery store / Little bully inside pinning me to the floor”, in a raw offering of cathartic introspection.
Almost pleading to his inner self, ‘Grocery Store’ is another impressive DIY release from Cavetown.
Following a number of ambitious releases this year, Cavetown is set to head out on their UK tour this November.
Words by Lana Jade Williams
