Blunt Chunks' latest single "BWFW" turns up the distortion to match the motion-sickness spiral of rejection. "Am I going backwards or forwards with you?" Caitlin Woelfle-O'Brien sings before the song's final climax, drums exploding around her like landmines as she mulls over how someone else's choices will effect her life's trajectory. "BWFW" is a cathartic vent session; it details the demise of an affair, dismissing the dishonesty of another and feelings of isolation even when a lovers in close vicinity, as well as how one final rebuff leads to a breakdown. Blunt Chunks makes the combustion from heartbreak an unmissable thrill.
"I wrote this one while in Berlin in 2019. I was visiting a lover and he really made me feel unwanted," Woelfle-O'Brien explains about the single. "I ended up leaving his place and staying at a friend's warehouse art studio where I was much freer to create. I had gone out to Berghain and ran into his friends and ended up joining them at a concert...and I was secretly doing drugs in the bathroom alone because I felt so out-of-place and insecure. That was a 'teetering on the edge of mental-breakdown' kind of night."
The single comes from Blunt Chunks' forthcoming self-titled debut EP that's out May 6 on Telephone Explosion Records. Blunt Chunks is led by Woelfle-O'Brien, but the recordings feature Scott Hardware and members of The Weather Station, Luna Li, Broken Social Scene, and Hooded Fang.
Listen to "BWFW" below.
