If you've ever put on red lipstick while contemplating the fact that once you're dead your entire face will rot off anyways, you might understand the macabre undertones to this sunshine-y single by The She's from San Francisco. Just as make-up is a distraction from the reality of our aging bodies, the doo-wop break-down in "Cherry Red" deranges a morbid message into blissed-out harmonies: "Youth can fade in bleach blonde braids/ stuck behind deciding how to live before you die/ In twenty years you’re burried deep and they don’t even cry." Go ahead and throw a funeral for yourself because this song is both the party and the come down."Cherry Red" is featured on a split 45 from Empty Cellar. Stream the single below and pre-order the split here.
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