Cavetown

“It’s a weird dynamic because a lot of the time I’m taking something that it’s hard for me to admit even to myself, then putting it into a song and sharing it with the entire world,” says the Cambridge-based musician/producer otherwise known as Robin Skinner.

Since self-releasing his debut single at age 16, Cavetown has steadily amassed a devoted following, bringing his extraordinarily close-knit live show to venues across the globe. On his new album worm food, he delivers his most elaborately realised body of work to date, shaping his idiosyncratic storytelling into songs that ultimately give voice to our own most intimate emotions.

The follow-up to his 2021 EP Man’s Best Friend, worm food arrives as Cavetown’s latest full-length since his major-label debut Sleepyhead, a 2020 release that inspired NME to hail him as a “bedroom[1]pop hero building worldwide community.” As with all his output, Skinner produced the album on his own at his home studio, holing up in his garage and infusing his understated alt-pop with a powerful new vitality. “All these songs were written with the live set in mind, which I hadn’t thought about much before,” notes Skinner, who performs live with a full band. “It was fun to imagine how something might come to life onstage, and to think about how I might interact with the audience at different moments.”

Cavetown welcomes Ricky Montgomery as support for the show.