Cassandra Jenkins has released ‘Petco’, the latest offering from her forthcoming album My Light, My Destroyer. It follows previous cuts ‘Only One’ and ‘Delphinium Blue’, and it comes with a video directed by Jenkins herself. Check it out below.
In a press release, Jenkins explained:
Petco is about looking for connection & coming up a little short. Writing from a pointedly angsty and existential place allowed me to be more playful with songwriting. I needed a space to explore the lizard brain, and deep down the song stems from the sincere belief that we are wired, on the most basic instinctual level, to love and to be loved.
I wanted to capture the sense of uncanny malaise inherent to a place that puts a price tag on nature – simultaneously granting us access to the natural world while distancing us from it, all with the promise of companionship.
I come back to the same ideas again and again in my songs, and Petco throws a new lens on a familiar thought: the further we distance ourselves from the natural world, the harder it is to find our way back. It’s easy to wonder if we’ve gone too far, and despite my anxieties, I can’t help but see the humanity in all of it.
Of the video, she added: “The video is staged in three distinct locations: an NYC apartment with a window to the outside world, a pet store, and lastly, the dance floor– where the video provides a sense of closure that the song never gives us.”
My Light, My Destroyer arrives July 12 on Dead Oceans.
