Case Oats Share New Single “In a Bungalow” Ahead of Debut Album

[Under the Radar]

By Issa Nasatir

Last Missouri Exit Due Out August 22 via Merge

Case Oats, the Chicago-based project of Casey Gomez Walker, has shared its new single “In a Bungalow” ahead of the release of their debut album. Last Missouri Exit is due out August 22 via Merge. Check out the new single below.

Case Oats are Spencer Tweedy (drums), Max Subar (guitar, pedal steel), Scott Daniel (fiddle), Jason Ashworth (bass), and frontperson Casey Gomez Walker.

“In a Bungalow” follows the single “Bitter Root Lake” and their first single “Seventeen” released in March of this year.

Gomez Walker spoke on “In a Bungalow” in a press release. “This song is kind of a taunt set to a sweet melody. An indignant taunt. Iʼm wondering why people I grew up with havenʼt moved on from childhood drama. Iʼm asking why they havenʼt gotten past that stuff. But in the end, Iʼm no better. I want to be back in a bar with them, regressing, indulging in the sweet pain of being left behind and wronged.”

About the album, Tweedy says: “It was intentionally bare-bones. We brought just enough stuff to the basement to be able to record. We were lucky to have played a lot of shows in the months leading up to the session, so we just played like we had been playing, no preciousness.”

Case Oats will embark on a short U.S. tour of album release shows bookended by festival dates beginning in July and then support Superchunk for their North American tour in October.