Still fresh off the release of his debut EP I Hope Hell Isn’t Real, which arrived back in April, St. Louis–born songwriter Roe Kapara already returned last week to join Epitaph Records labelmate Dolo Tonight on the morbidly upbeat new single “Fake My Death.” The collaboration saw Kapara continuing with his penchant for lightly surreal pop tunes steeped in themes of death and the afterlife as displayed on his debut, finding an inspired match in his like-minded genre-blurring songwriter peer.
Meanwhile, Kapara took to his backyard in his adopted home of LA to perform a track from I Hope Hell Isn’t Real for a recent “Neighborhoods” session. Removing the left-field production turns of the studio version of “Everyone’s Dying (Grandma’s Drunk Again)” to present the song as a straight acoustic ballad, the video presents a candid look at what lies beneath the surface of the EP’s pop sheen. Check it out below.
