With every new track Cam Kahin releases from his forthcoming debut album, it’s only getting harder to classify it. But ahead of CHUG’s release this Friday, the Toronto-based artist is sharing one last single that feels pretty distinctly aligned with a few of his Dine Alone Records labelmates—namely the nasally snarl of Single Mothers’ Drew Thomson and the aggressive pop-punk of The Dirty Nil. In fact the latter genre was the jumping off point for “Yeah Right!,” as Kahin tells us. “I wanted to make a song that captured the 2000s pop punk sound that I grew up on,” he shares, addressing the track’s inherent nostalgia. “I was feeling particularly overwhelmed with newfound responsibilities and just getting older. I felt like these chords and this energy was the perfect backdrop to let out some of those frustrations.”
And in case the song title led you to believe that “Yeah Right!” was in any way an homage to Spike Jonze’s skate-video work from this same era, filmmaker Adit Dixit’s skate-centric video for the song may clear things up. “We ditched the big cameras and lights and shot all of this on a skateboard-style VHS cam,” Dixit shares. “The video was pieced together across our journey working on the visual world for this album back in Dunnville [Ontario], with a big chunk coming from Mudcat Festival—this once-a-year festival the whole town shows up for. It’s not staged or precious. It’s just real life, reckless abandon.”
Check out the video below—which may skew a bit more Jackass than anything else Jonze did—and pre-order CHUG ahead of its release this Friday here.
