Taste Test: Zach Phillips wades into bittersweet memories with ‘Caroline’
The San Diego storyteller revisits a former love with a new song.
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We’ve all got heartbreaks collecting in our rearview. Sometimes, they clog up our perspective, like splintered glass. But with his new song, San Diego singer-songwriter Zach Phillips lets the misery, once pounding in his head, to wash away. On “Caroline,” the name of a former love, he allows himself to wade into the bittersweet nostalgia of it all. “And I’d get away, say what I need to say / Do what I wanna do, asking nothing of you,” he recounts. “I’d promise my soul, and some bad rock ’n’ roll / But it wouldn’t change a thing…” Despite endurance of such pain, he simply pulls it into himself, a vital piece of who he’s become today, a bit older and a whole lot wiser.
“Caroline” samples his brand new album, The Wine of Youth, out everywhere now.
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