Bodywash, “Come And Go”

Bodywash, the Montreal dream-pop duo of Rosie Long Decter and Chris Steward, released their most recent album I Held The Shape While I Could in 2023, and they followed it with a 2024 cover of Wham!'s "Last Christmas." Yesterday, they came back with a jangly, pretty new one-off called "Come And Go." Here's what Decter says about it:

I wrote "Come And Go" mostly in one go at home, improvising on vocal and bass, and then I brought it to Chris, playing it for him on guitar in the studio. Normally, I write on keys and make a demo, and he helps flesh it out, or vice versa. But after our last album, we wanted to try writing more in the room together. As we played through the song together, and Chris wrote the riff, it came together really quickly in a shared burst of energy that’s only really possible in person. The song itself is really influenced by the built environment of Montreal, the forty auto route, the new buildings popping up around the University de Montreal campus, this crazy animal-themed light show in Laval. It describes scenes I’ve shared with my girlfriend and my bandmates here, and the sort of temporary or transitory feeling that comes with living as an artist in Montreal, or anywhere really, the sense that there could always be an end date on the horizon.

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