Philadelphia-based musician Mallory Hawk shares ‘Caretaker’, the latest single from her upcoming debut album Chinook, due out 31 July.
A buzzy, fast-paced track perfect for your Monday soundtrack, ‘Caretaker’ captures the pressure of trying to juggle everything at once, exploring the tension between nurturing others and feeling overwhelmed by the responsibility.
“This song is about rejecting my frantic feminine urge to keep everything ‘chill’ and avoid domestic conflicts. People have always relied on me (and other women) to be more responsible and ‘better at’ domestic tasks. My whole life I’ve always been driven to just get a task done myself instead of asking for help. It’s a complicated push and pull, enjoying my nurturing spirit and the fear that people are taking advantage of it. It’s the only song I was precious about in the studio, my logic demo had the exact zany egg-punk energy and simplicity I was looking for. We added a little more lead guitar but that was it. I wanted it to feel like the song was bubbling over until it burst so I kept pushing for it to feel more and more distorted until it burst at the end.”
Mallory Hawk
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