20-year-old Connecticut native Jake Minch embodies our misspent youth here on latest single, “handgun.” With nothing more than a voice, an acoustic guitar, and some atmospherics, Jake brings us back to our college days (not that we’re too OLD to relate… or something) – drunk and hungover and coming into our own as adults. Striking imagery and charming lyrics reminiscent of The Front Bottoms or Modern Baseball really help to paint us a picture of Jake’s wonderfully youthful world view. With deeply narrative songs like this one, sometimes it’s best just to hear from the artist themselves – here’s what Jake had to say:
“The song takes place right before ‘doing music’ was on my mind. It lives in the morning, waking up after my first big party-weekend at a new school. My head hurt too much to move, so I skipped my Econ class to lay with my thoughts and a bottle of Pedialyte. I thought about how much I wanted to not feel as dirty as I did, and I thought about how disappointed the people I wanted to love would be. Handgun is a song about bridging the gap between being a kid and being an adult and it is partially the act of jumping too far ahead, but it is more importantly the whiplash that comes with the guilt I felt about changing.”
Check out “handgun” via YouTube below, or on Spotify or Apple Music.