Becca Caffyn Releases New Single ‘Late Day Sun’
Indie-folk singer/songwriter Becca Caffyn returns with delicate new track Late Day Sun.
Co-written in 2022 with Edward Liu (EDY) and Christian Tjandrawinata, Late Day Sun ruminates on feelings of disillusionment and nostalgia, wrestling with an overwhelming fear of ‘getting left behind’.
Her first single following the release of 2024 EP Hallways, the track speaks to growing up and growing into yourself; working to discover the life you want to create while feeling as though the world is running laps around you. Written in the months leading up to Caffyn’s twentieth birthday, Late Day Sun is about feeling like, instead of everything you hoped to do and all you aspired to be, all you’ve done is get older, and all you are is 20.
Doused in silky piano and rubber-bridge guitar, the track takes sonic inspiration from the likes of Phoebe Bridgers and Lizzy McAlpine.
Late Day Sun was produced, mixed, and mastered by Christian Tjandrawinata, recorded between Parachute Music’s Studio A and Christian’s home studio and coming together over a number of years.
With each passing year the single has only become more relatable to both Caffyn and her loyal live audience; its honesty and vulnerability cementing the track as a crowd favourite in live settings.
Directed by Alaina Wilks (Wrackler Films), Late Day Sun’s accompanying video hones in on the feelings of nostalgia in the track, depicting the dichotomy between youthful optimism and the wistfulness of your late-teens.
Visually, the video is laced with motifs of golden warm light, reminiscent of childhood memories, and cuts between Caffyn and her ‘younger self’, played by Charlotte Jaspers.
This single and video were made with the support of NZ On Air.
