If you thought you had to wait any longer for another carwash track, think again. Just under a month since his last release, Garrett Seamans has returned with “racetrack,” another addition to his ongoing project carwash, and to his upcoming debut EP, soap water. Much like his last single “boyfriend, girlfriend,” “racetrack” embodies warm feelings of nostalgia and a yearning for connection. Though we often think that we outgrow our youthful daydreams and adolescent habits, Seamans reminds us again and again that they never fully disappear.

“racecar” builds on simplicity and the sometimes overlooked beauty of lo-fi sound. Seamans’ hauntingly soft and barely-there voice wash into the acoustic guitar and delicate instrumentals that evoke a tucked-away, hazy memory of time spent with someone special. Like I’ve said before, Seamans has a great ability to create music that’s enjoyable but also so relatable. “racetrack” is about something seemingly banal, but to me, means a lot. “I spent so many days lying around my friends’ rooms trying to figure out something to do,” Seamans explains. “We always eventually hop in the car and lap neighborhoods, driving in circles. That's where the title ‘racetrack’ comes from, laps and laps around the same streets. While at the surface it seems so mundane, driving around has become the space where conversation naturally reveals itself.”

For those with the privilege of owning a car, or having a friend who owns a car, you know that going for a drive is the infinitely useful solution to boredom. And no matter how many times you do it, there’s an intimacy in looping around the same roads over and over again with someone, bound to each other’s company by the speed you’re traveling. And it eventually becomes habitual, and even while alone, you start to take the long way home to race around the block just a couple more times. When I moved to Los Angeles, I traded my drives through forested, tree-canopied streets with childhood friends in Connecticut to beachside drives with my own company. “racetrack” makes me feel not so alone in my habits, and makes me think there might be something to romanticize in the way I choose to waste my time. With each new release, Seamans continues to prove his ability to create something comfortingly relatable and sonically pleasing, so I look forward to more from carwash and Postcard Boy.

Written By Sophia Scorziello

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