You swept through this house
picking summer colours in a baggy t-shirt.
You said: “How can we keep out the winter
with such bare walls?”
And we shot our mouths into the water
while your eyes caught firework sparks
and your cheeks had painted-on freckles
that left yellow streaks when I wiped them off.
I first heard Chris Bathgate at performance by a student dance company on the campus of UC Berkeley. They danced to "Eliza (hue)" and I knew right away that this was an artist I had to find. It took a little bit of luck and google kung fu, but I'm definitely glad I tracked him down. "Borders" is another stand out track and I love "Everything (Overture)", especially the live NPR Tiny Desk version. Connor Welton
Thanks to records like this and the output of other artists like Jake Xerxes Fussell and Kaia Kater, I'm slowly recuperating the time I wasted overlooking American folk music and country. Ben Harris
"Dustups" continues Body Surfer’s exploration of intimacy and personal history, rich acoustic folk deep in meaning. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 24, 2021