Interstate 95 runs all the way up and down the East Coast, from Miami to Maine. Fat Joe used to wear a chain with an iced-out 95 sign, the implication being that he used the highway to traffic drugs. But everyone uses 95. Its traffic can be brutal. When you drive north to Baltimore on 95, you get the most breathtaking view of the city’s skyline. Every time I go through that patch of road, I get upset that I don’t still live there. Anyway, that particular road now supplies the title of a pretty new indie-pop song from Yumi Zouma.
Yumi Zouma are from New Zealand, which is not reachable via Route 95. Over softly crushed guitars, Christie Simpson sings, “Driving down the 95 with a Bible by my side/ I shouldn’t drink when I drive, I shouldn’t call you when I cry.” It’s a song about getting everything you want and then realizing that you don’t actually want it, about feeling hopelessly homesick when you’re playing music all around the world.
“95” is the latest single from Yumi Zouma’s long-awaited new album No Love Lost To Kindness, which will finally arrive next month. They’ve been sharing singles that’ll appear on that album for months, and we’ve posted five of them, so I’m not linking them all here. (The last one was “Phoebe’s Song,” which is great.) “95” is number six. Listen below.
No Love Lost To Kindness is out 1/30 on Nettwerk.
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