New Yorker, Charlotte Rose Benjamin has followed up her 2020 debut EP with her new single “Back To The Future,” inspired by the one and only Marty McFly with release from Moshi Moshi.
The track references the classic moment and conveys post-millennial angst along the way that tackles the folk-rock of acts like Sharon Van Etten with a more 90s-esque stylings of new artists like Snail Mail or Soccer Mommy.
As explained by Benjamin below:
“Back to the Future” is a piece of the constant loop of intrusive thoughts I experience every day. So much anxiety just comes with being alive in 2020, especially as a young person and looking at social media and my peers and feeling disconnected. When I was maybe 7 I watched the movie Back to the Future with my dad and the scene where Marty McFly is on stage at the school dance playing the guitar and his fingers start going see-through and he keeps looking at this photo of him standing with his family and he’s slowly fading out of because he went back in time and (spoiler) almost prevented his parents from ever getting together scared the shit out of me and I made my dad turn it off and didn’t see the ending for years. The idea of having ~never existed~ was horrifying to me. A few months into quarantine I realized that’s exactly how I felt. I moved back into my parents’ house and sometimes it was hard to believe that anything in my adult life had ever even happened.
Find “Back To The Future” available to stream now below.
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