Last year we noted Catherine Moan as one of our new favorite music discoveries. The Philadelphia-based electronic-pop artist crashed our pink pages in April with a sterling — and timely — cover of Depeche Mode’s “Fools”, and picked up further allure and appeal with the bouncy “Drop It!” a few months later. Today (January 11), her September 2021 record Chain Reaction is getting the extended cassette release treatment from her label, Born Losers Records (home to Korine, Johnny Dynamite, and others), and part of the expanded razzle n’ dazzle is inclusion of the Mode cover and a delectable new track called “Soda Pop.”
This new joint has a pretty sweet low-end groove coated in liquid love, with each beat dancing wildly our taste buds. And naturally, it has an energetic boost that fails to fizzle out over its 2:46 runtime.
“‘Soda Pop’ is a song I wrote during one of my frequent energy drink binges,” says Moan. “If I have work to do I’ll slam back a Red Bull and treat it like medication for my ADHD. It’s a simple song about love sickness, addiction, and withdrawal from someone sweet like sugar. Sometimes you don’t realize how deep you are in your obsession until it’s cut off from you and the pangs and manic thoughts come raining down. You can take the message literally or figuratively, maybe you drink too much soda and need a cola breakup anthem.”
Take your daily dose of carbonated pop — and break up with whatever vice you have left these days.