"California Wintertime"
Fan-exclusive first listen!
“Frozen on the beach, dressed like Margot Tenenbaum in mary janes and mink /
She can’t wait til spring, coz California wintertime is colder than you’d think.”
As a token of gratitude for subscribing to our email list… here is an unlisted link to the “California Wintertime” lyric video!
If you’ve come to any of our shows in the last few years, you may remember having seen us play a stripped-down version of this song at the end of our set. It’s one of our collective favorites to play, because we all get to sing together.
It’s an ode to the biting cold of California winters, where the bone-chill of the coastal fog catches you off guard. Those of you in other states or countries are probably laughing at us for this— but if you’ve ever been in California in January you know what I’m talking about.
It’s a nostalgia trip— through cold surfs, into old karaoke haunts, across long night drives listening to Madonna CDs and Beatles CDs in my old Buick. It’s a trip back to when I lived in the uninsulated house that my wife grew up in, cranking the space heater in her garage and writing songs into the early hours of the morning.
Recorded last winter with Wyatt Blair and Kourtney Kyung Smith at Savannah Studios in Los Angeles, this song comes out on Friday along with the rest of the songs on our new album ‘BECKER’. Don’t forget to pre-save!
Also! We are playing a handful of album release shows next week in Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Toronto— if you live near any of these places we’d love to celebrate with you! Meet us at the merch table where we will have brand new (!) BECKER vinyl, T-shirts, and other curios for sale.
Happy listening!
SWMRS
It was awesome to hear y'all live in TX!
Love the melodic vocals 🩷🎶 of this one.
This is awesome! Thank you guys for sharing it early (:
Super hyped to hear and experience the whole album!!