Pouty Shares New Single 'TV On TV'

Pouty Shares New Single 'TV On TV'

The debut LP You forgot about me Out February 9, 2024 via Get Better Records

January 16, 2024

By Caleb Campbell

Photo by Sheldon Omar-Abba

Early next month Rachel Gagliardi will be released Forget me, her debut full-length album as Pouty. Gagliardi has been playing in various indie punk bands for years, including half of Slutever and later as part of Upset. He first began recording as Pouty in 2013, collaborating with Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zuner on a song-a-day project. Her debut EP, Take me to Honey Island arrived a few years later in 2016, followed by her EP in 2017, Saint Mary of many moodsand a number of subsequent singles.

Arriving February 9 via Get Better Records, the album is at its core a collection of fuzzy and tightly written indie punk tracks, nodding to various strains of power pop, grunge and pop punk. Gagliardi has already shared a pair of singles from the record, “Virgos Need More Love” and “Salty,” and today she returns with another new track, “TV On TV.”

“TV on TV” is a tribute to the charm of California, infused with huge guitars, pounding drums and plenty of 90s nostalgia. Gagliardi's vocals enhance her crazy punk stylings, but the guitar tone and catchy chorus are straight out of the top of the grunge era, with a quiet powerful chorus, walls of noisy guitar riffs and sharp pop synths to underline it all. Gagliardi sings, “Long drives / Highways in the rain / Strawberry on my tongue / Sharp as the pains grow / Escape west where there's TV on TV / And you can feel better, like you should / California / Like I want it to be.”

Check out the song below. You forgot about me out February 9 via Get Better Records.