Gay Meat – “Vodka Sprite”

Gay Meat's debut album Blue Water arrives next month. So far we've heard "Love For Fun," "More Good Angels," and "The Powerball," and today Karl Kuehn is back with the vulnerable ballad "Vodka Sprite."

"My mom wasn't perfect. And neither am I," Kuehn says of the song. "She always battled addiction and substance abuse and that’s hard to understand when you don’t necessarily know what it feels like. In the years leading up to her brain injury she was in a particularly bad way. I would try to help her, to remind her that life was worth living, but there was a cynicism in her I couldn’t relate to. I watched her become someone I didn’t recognize while still trying to be the good son she raised."

"Vodka Sprite" is acoustic and sprawling, almost weightless despite the emotional burden. Listen below.

Blue Water is out 4/24 via Skeletal Lightning.