Gay Meat: Not necessarily a band name you want to go around recommending to people willy-nilly, but music worth recommending nonetheless. Ex-Museum Mouth frontman Karl Kuehn has been releasing catchy, pensive, emo-leaning indie rock under the moniker for a while, and now he’s got a new label home at Skeletal Lightning, who are releasing Gay Meat’s upcoming debut album Blue Water sometime early in the new year. In the meantime, Kuehn’s sharing the record’s lead single “Love For Fun” today.
As Kuehn tells it, “Love For Fun” was written in the aftermath of a fling with an older guy, which he realized in retrospect was doomed from the start. The track is a slow burner that reaches an epic swell in its final chorus — with some subtle background vocals courtesy of Jeff Rosenstock — as if to mimic the a-ha moment of recognizing that the “love” in question really was just “fun” all along. Listen below.
