Careful Gaze - "Sunrooms" | New Music

Careful Gaze are continuing their streak of 2020 one-off singles with "Sunrooms."

All three tracks have depicted different emotional struggles, from existential loneliness to fighting domestic abuse. "Sunrooms" finds lyricist/vocalist Gabe Reasoner offering a testament to friendship and community in the wake of a flood of death. He grasps at the past while drowning in the present. Despite the claim that eloquence was left "dangling on a clothesline in the summer wind," each impressionistic line uses its poetry to capture an individual strand of the tangled web of human connection.

The band builds to a crescendo gradually. Most of the song's first part focuses on Reasoner's words and affecting vocals. He reaches into his trademark screamed range, but the rest of the band remains subdued. "Sunrooms'" peak arrives as a sea of gang vocals bursts in alongside Reasoner and repeats the chorus over and over. The bond being demanded ("I won't let you lose me / So don't let me lose you") is found in the unison of communal singing. Even though things might fade away, we faded away together.

Listen to and/or buy "Sunrooms" below.

Watch the video, shot by Dillon Bauman, below.

"Sunrooms" is also the band's final song with longtime drummer Jason Neymeyer.